> BSD is a de-facto more permissive license. Just saying something like this seems slightly dishonest. It's more permissive for the first receiver of the code

> BSD is a de-facto more permissive license. Just saying something like this seems slightly dishonest. It's more permissive for the first receiver of the code, but that therefore means that they are permitted to reduce the persmissions of subsequent receivers of the code. So 'more permissive' in a sense yes, but not in the sense that the FSF care about - the freedoms that the end user is guaranteed. It's quite possible that the end user is ultimately granted fewer permissions because code was licensed BSD rather than GPL.