FWIW I'll add my opinion on licensing:
I'll accept any Free Software license. If two similar software packages are
licensed under permissive and copyleft licenses, I'll choose the best one in
terms of quality.
When it comes to choosing a license for my own projects, I would /probably/
choose the GPL. I believe copyleft is good because it prevents proprietary
forks from occurring, even if they don't occur very often.
I believe that if enough people believed in Free Software then this issue
would be irrelevant. Unfortunately that isn't the case. Because many users
are enticed into using proprietary software, those companies are able to
exert power over those people and lock them in. Copyleft aims to stop this.
Unfortunately copyleft complicates things slightly, which is the common
argument for permissive software.
aliasbody, if you're still reading this thread: if I had a mobile phone I
would be happy to use your software no matter the Free Software license you
use. :)
