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by cannam 1309 days ago
Source-code freedom is user freedom. It's effectively a sort of guarantee.

The additional freedom that BSD licences provide is freedom for developers to do what they like, not anything to do with users.

(The biggest practical advantage of a BSD licence for most developers is that if you use one when publishing your code while you work for a company, you yourself will still be able to reuse that code after you leave.)

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Developers are users.
Which is why it makes sense for developers to license their code under licenses that guarantee user freedoms - so that they themselves can benefit.