True freedom must necessarily include the freedom to do things that piss others off, or else it is not truly free.
That's true, but most people don't really want "true freedom", like the freedom to kill somebody or to set houses on fire. We accept restrictions on freedom when it interferes with others' freedom.
That is exactly the philosophy of the GPL: They believe that if they give you the freedom to use the code in proprietary software without releasing the source, it ultimately harms the freedom of others to modify the software.
You may not agree with that analysis, bit simply claiming that the BSD license is better because it is "freer" is absurd.
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True freedom must necessarily include the freedom to do things that piss others off, or else it is not truly free.
That's true, but most people don't really want "true freedom", like the freedom to kill somebody or to set houses on fire. We accept restrictions on freedom when it interferes with others' freedom.
That is exactly the philosophy of the GPL: They believe that if they give you the freedom to use the code in proprietary software without releasing the source, it ultimately harms the freedom of others to modify the software.
You may not agree with that analysis, bit simply claiming that the BSD license is better because it is "freer" is absurd.