“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
I&#x27;m still bummed out that for years, GPL was the &quot;standard&quot; go-to open source license. So many projects became useless for any commercial projects whatsoever.<p>GPL advocates say it&#x27;s so that your code isn&#x27;t exploited by corporations.<p>But I&#x27;d say that choosing GPL means it&#x27;s more important to you that your code &quot;is not exploited by corporations&quot; than that it can be used for good by people with commercial interests.<p>Those two things do not have to be synonyms. I&#x27;d much rather allow the second if it means tolerating the first.<p>(Edit: Seeing the downvotes, I&#x27;d be genuinely interested in counter-arguments or thoughts on this)<p>(Edit 2: Just because it keeps coming up, let me make absolutely clear that I do NOT in any way think GPL might never be a valid choice, nor that anyone, myself included, should feel &quot;entitled&quot; to &quot;free as in *.*&quot; code.)