> The question you actually asking is: Who has the right to tell if restrictions on copying, modification and usage is allowed on a work. It has nothing to do w

> The question you actually asking is: Who has the right to tell if restrictions on copying, modification and usage is allowed on a work. It has nothing to do with freedom, and the answer is always going to be the author. Political philosophers has long since past agreed that permission to restrict other people freedom is not liberty. Read the full blog post. The question goes effectively to a question of enumerated liberties vs work ownership, and myself siding with the latter. There may be lots of reasons to license or not under the BSD license but once you do, then you are saying that anyone downstream gets to own their own work. Again I define "own" and "work" in the piece. I would recommend you read it.