“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
I&#x27;m very frustrated by some of the answers here and on Twitter. Carmack says:<p><i>&gt; The GPL virality wound up being a net negative, and more value would have come from BSD. [...] The best aspects of GPL work didn&#x27;t manifest, but tons of opportunities to just copy-paste-modify were lost due to license concerns.</i><p>One of the answers on Twitter:<p><i>&gt; Then what if it&#x27;s being exploited by big techs and make your work proprietary? GPL preserves the four essential freedoms, BSD does not.</i><p>Yes. Okay. Carmack is aware of that.<p>When he says &quot;The best aspects of GPL work didn&#x27;t manifest&quot;, he specifically addressing those concerns, and saying that he basically saw no benefit from &quot;not being exploited by big techs&quot;.<p>Like, I find it intensely frustrating that, when an industry veteran says &quot;I&#x27;ve heard the pros and cons of each approach and I found that in my real-life experience GPL was a net negative&quot;, people answer with a 101 on the philosophy of GPL.<p>Is there a word for that? Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?