I was installing jxself's kernel today on a new rig and decided to stalk him
on identica and saw him comment about GitHub's Tom Preston-Wener's keynote
talking about FLOSS licenses at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAAlPXB2-c
around the 10:52 mark.
Is this a new mentality where the cool and hip San Francisco startup, new-age
programmers will only do permissive licenses? Granted, I think that
permissive licenses are more than suitable for the majority of code to get to
the broadest audience, but the GPL does have its strengths if you want to
force people to buy a commercial license if you own the copyright to free
software.
But does the GPL lack freedom entirely? That's up for debate really.
