>People want even more freedom than the GPL offers, they'd rather use the MIT or BSD license. Oh please, stop with 'people' generalisations. First off GPL is t

>People want even more freedom than the GPL offers, they'd rather use the MIT or BSD license. Oh please, stop with 'people' generalisations. First off GPL is the most used open source licence there is, and that doesn't mean it's what the 'people want'. Just as certain as MIT or BSD is also not what 'people want'. The 'people' is a diverse mass of individuals which have different needs and ideologies, some want the source code of modifictions/derivatives as an exchange for their code, others want their name retained in the source code commentary, etc. Also many times developers chose one licence for one type of project and a different one for another type of project. What we typically see is that for full application style projects, copyleft is dominant, while for component/framework style code, permissive licencing is dominant. Copyleft and permissive licences caters for different needs, they fullfill those needs and hence they are used.