If you use an over-permissive license, you run the risk of a company like Apple growing to a multi-billion-dollar enterprise off the back of your hard work, the

If you use an over-permissive license, you run the risk of a company like Apple growing to a multi-billion-dollar enterprise off the back of your hard work, then migrating in a proprietary direction once rich. Whether that's a problem or not is up to you and your sense of fairness :) My preference is the LGPL, for reasons I explain in the boilerplate README for my FOSS work: ===== The GPL is specifically designed to reduce the usefulness of GPL-licensed code to closed-source, proprietary software. The BSD license (and similar) don't mandate code-sharing if the BSD-licensed code is modified by licensees. The LGPL achieves the best of both worlds: an LGPL-licensed library can be incorporated within closed-source proprietary code, and yet those using an LGPL-licensed library are required to release source code to that library if they change it. =====