Ted, I am a fan of flak and have great respect for OpenBSD and it's developers and community. I in no way intended to suggest that developers who choose a permissive license "kill kittens" in their spare time.

I was talking about a bigger scale where large companies promote permissive licenses so they can take and lock up.

I respect the fact that BSD developers and those that choose that license think it's the right way to go and, as recent contributions from Microsoft to OpenSSH have shown, sometimes it is of great benefit to the developers to choose such a license. Then again not everyone attracts the attention that the BSD projects do and so I believe there are circumstances where the GPL is more appropriate.

I just don't get why there isn't room for both types of licenses depending on circumstance, developer choice and what's best for the entire software ecosystem.

Sorry if I offended...