> Even using a licence more restrictive than GPL seems to me unethical and against public interest, but would exclude the majority of employment prospects. No,

> Even using a licence more restrictive than GPL seems to me unethical and against public interest, but would exclude the majority of employment prospects. No, it would not. You may believe it would because the vast majority of the software we use is widely distributed (OS, Web browser, Office suite, games…). On the other hand, the vast majority of produced software is actually custom software. (As you may have noticed, the two occurrences of "vast majority" doesn't refer to the same quantity.) Custom software doesn't need to be proprietary to sustain their income.