I'm surprised this still needs saying, but the difference between FOSS licenses isn't really about how much freedom they grant but who gets that freedom.
e.g. GPL/AGPL focuses on end-user freedom, MIT/BSD focuses on developer freedom, and Apache/MPL tries to find a compromise between the two.
While I don't think choice of license makes all that big of a difference, I'm very much on the side of the end-user so I tend to prefer the GPL.
As for you, I don't care. Just please don't smear.
@alcinnz
Very good point, often missed through the ideology wars.
As an end user, AGPL is my preferred licence, because of the freedoms it gives me.
As a developer of bespoke software, it's a PitA
I'd say that #GPL and #AGPL tries to give most of developers most of the #freedom, because ultimately #users are incentived to become #developers.
#MIT and #BSD are designed to maximise the gain for #corporations (both were born in #USA #Universities that in a way give back to the #industry that provides them most of their funding).
So the difference is deep and practical.
Stating it's just a matter of #philosophy is #political #propaganda against #hackers #FreeSoftware
