I have a very different question when I chose license for my software. I ask if my software might end up being used in a product where someone could get sued for sharing software online.<p>I would personally be fine with a new license that simply said &quot;Be nice or don&#x27;t use my software. You can&#x27;t sue people who use or share this software. You can&#x27;t apply for patents and sue people who are being creative and code. You can&#x27;t stop people from understanding the software that they run on their own machine.&quot;. However I doubt many companies would prefer that over GPLv3 so it easier to just use a commonly understood license which Linux distributions understand and find legally acceptable.