The GPL,LGPL, and AGPL are for software where the Free Software Foundation
has been assigned the copyright. The Apache Public license was created for
Apache by Apache. The Mozilla Public license was created by Mozilla. The
copyright owner controls and protects the software. The copyright owner can
even dual license the code. Other copyright owners using these permissive
licenses popularizes them, but in no way obligates them to keep the copyright
that way, or license other software they own copyright to with similar
licenses.
I am hazy on this but Free Software Foundation and Debian had the first
standards about what licenses constituted Free or Open Source software.
Truly, wish to protect software freedom? Assign copyright to the GNU Project
which is controlled by an organization that is unwaveringly dedicated to free
software. Also FSF and Debian/Software in the Public Interest have actually
pursued litigation to protect free software. The GNU Project is sort of a
copyright collective. In software the organization with the biggest IP
usually wins. If software is disruptive enough to gain wide adoption there
will be litigation.
Maybe, if Vorbis assigned its copyrights to FSF GNU industry would be willing
to adopt it as a standard. Given sufficient size and software use, GNU
Project could act as a de facto standards organization.
Point is licensing your software using someone else's license it a step in a
good direction, but it isn't enough to build an industry; one where software
IP isn't powerful.
