> The thought that someone might take the code I wrote and make it into a proprietary product, removing the freedoms I had, is horrible.
I feel this argument is weak: even if I license my works under BSD, no one can make my BSD licensed code that has already been distributed into to a proprietary product, even not myself.
To make that software that I licensed under BSD a proprietary product they would need to somehow convince all users of my software to get rid of all copies as well as convincing me to stop distributing it under a free licence.
Building a proprietary product that includes my code does NOT remove anyones freedom to use my code, no?
I feel this argument is weak: even if I license my works under BSD, no one can make my BSD licensed code that has already been distributed into to a proprietary product, even not myself.
To make that software that I licensed under BSD a proprietary product they would need to somehow convince all users of my software to get rid of all copies as well as convincing me to stop distributing it under a free licence.
Building a proprietary product that includes my code does NOT remove anyones freedom to use my code, no?