The amount of collective brainpower being burned on licensing issues for supposedly free (as in speech) software is astonishing.<p>I do symphatize with the sentiment that an author does not want his work to be a source of illicit gains for someone else, etc, neither do I, but at the same time find that the usefulness of a piece of code for other open source developers is (figuratively) inversely proportional to the length of the license, while the real abusers don&#x27;t give a damn.