It's horses for courses, and sometimes none of the open source licenses are exactly what you're looking for.

Case in point.  I wrote an app some years ago.  Never
mind what it does, but it has a GUI.  Some people
ported it to Windows.  Some people ported it to a Mac.
I don't own a Windows box and I will probably never
own a Mac.  I keep getting a lot of support e-mails
for it saying "I run this on a Mac and push the X button
and Y happens can you tell me what's going wrong".  I
have no idea, it doesn't do that on Unix.

So I ended up having to hand-craft an open source license
by hacking about with bits of the BSD license but sort
of in reverse so I could say something like "you can freely
copy this app and give it away.  You can make modified versions
of it and give those away too, but if you do you must remove
my name and contact details from every file in that modified
version".  I couldn't find any existing open source license
that did that (at the time, I believe there are some that
have appeared since), so I had to write my own.

Other apps I've written have been released under the
GPL, BSD, LGPL, or as public domain, whatever seemed like
it suited it best at the time.

www.opensource.org is a good place to start.

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