[antirez]

Exactly, if you do an history check, GPL and similar restrictive licenses were used in the last decade a lot by companies wanting to retain control over the code, while BSD / MIT projects never incurred in the issues GPL-convinced people claimed to be the big risks, but effectively provided more freedom everybody.

However to be fully honest, there is something new in the horizon now. The fact is that AWS and other similar service provides are starting to make it almost impossible for BSD projects to use the old viable business model of selling services. Now that BSD projects are "embedded" into AWS (or other) as a "just use" products where all the problems are solved by the service provider, open source as we traditionally thought at it may be a bit at risk. It's not clear to me what the fix for this is. I'm not ok with removing rights from my OSS code, but I feel there is something wrong if the value generated by OSS code is captured mostly by big players selling services.