Thanks for the explanation. Agreed that BSD is the license of choice for people building proprietary software. Except for 2 points:
- In my lurkings on HN (for a few months now), I have seen that most folks here are pretty fair. Surely then they realize that choosing a license is the prerogative of the author. This is nothing to hate or get angry about.......just respect the writer of the code. There should be plenty of similar projects with more acceptable licenses if someone digs around. And if more people start using them, they will, in time be more popular than their GPL counterparts. After all, what is an open source project without a community?
- Writing webapps (as a lot of projects on HN seem to do) does not require one to open source one's backend application.
