[birdalbrocum]

This is all about destroying free software and allowing "open source" to take over, nothing with memory safety whatsoever. This can sound conspiracy but the main idea is to push permissive licenses, so companies can exploit your work without even mentioning your name. I believe the goal of Canonical and similar companies is to create a fully alternative Linux+GNU environment without GPL/AGPL, push it with embrace, extend, extinguish tactics and eventually create a developer culture that contributing to permissive license parallel project is a better alternative than original copyleft one.

[bigfishrunning]

How does it prevent you from licensing code you write any way you want? If those companies pay for a GPL-free linux distribution (kernel excepted i suppose), what's the problem? they paid for the work, they should be able to license it the way they want, and nothing prevents others from using and writing GPL'd software...i'm having trouble seeing the evil here...

[bigstrat2003]

That doesn't just sound conspiracy, that is a conspiracy theory. Permissive licenses are a perfectly valid free software option that some people prefer. They are not some kind of shadowy attempt to undermine free software.