[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.