[whoopdedo]

Isn't that essentially saying "If nothing were illegal there wouldn't be anyone in prison"?

[chrisseaton]

No it's essentially saying if projects like GCC published permissively we could all get along peacefully and wouldn't need to batter each other using the courts.

[whoopdedo]

Except one of the things a "permissive" license allows that the "restrictive" GPLv3 doesn't is locking code behind patents.

Companies like Apple prefer BSD specifically because they want the option of taking someone to court if they want to.

[loeg]

LLVM recently re-licensed to the Apache License (v2) which explicitly provides relevant patent grants on contributed works to consumers of the software.

[monocasa]

The issue there is it removes freedoms from your end users. Now there's a multitude of binary distributions of LLVM, and users can't mix and match pieces of them.