@vermaden The BSD's do not give you freedom as they are full of proprietary software (proprietary microcode, proprietary peripheral software, unlicensed files and some proprietary programs).

"Sony, NetApp, Netflix,Apple, SEGA and nintendo" like weak licenses as they can remove the freedom and add chains and use it to chain many people and all you need to do is add some text to a menu section few people read.

All of those companies are free to use GPLv2-or-later and GPLv3-or-later software for any purpose, even commercially - all they need to do is the trivial act of including the source code and installation information, or writing up a written offer for such and actually honoring the written offer for those who actually receive a copy of the software (they are free to do anything they like with it on their own computers if they don't distribute/convey it).

But none of those companies want freedom, all they want is the power to take the customers freedom and some sucker has done most of the work for them completely gratis and might even end up thanking them when the software is used against them (for example, the main curl developer has a car that runs curl, except he has no control over that version of curl and it appears it is being used to spy of them).


Weak licenses happen to give freedom by default, but they give the *power* to *take freedom* and as a result, a lot of freedom is taken - arguably more freedom is taken in the end that outweighs the freedom a lesser amount of people get from downloading the original sources.