That's absurd. Murder? Seriously? Are you really comparing the ability to use code with fewer restrictions with "murder"? Is "murder" the new "Nazi" or some

That's absurd. Murder? Seriously? Are you really comparing the ability to use code with fewer restrictions with "murder"? Is "murder" the new "Nazi" or something? edit: . . . and I'd like to see your statistical evidence for the GPL actually resulting in "more free and happy people". I think the BSD License is a great and subtle fishhook for pulling people into the world of free and open source software, whereas the GPL is a gigantic barbed hook the size of my head with blood and gore dripping off it (at least in the eyes of many businesses), so obvious in its intent and the difficulty of getting unhooked after taking a nibble that many of them may never give it a chance. In short, I'm not convinced that the GPL helps. Maybe it results in a marginally higher rate of return among those who use the code. Maybe. Then again, maybe it also results in fewer people using the code, and maybe overall that results in a lower rate of return. 50% of 100 isn't as much as 20% of 1000, after all.