Comment Re:And this is why (Score 1) 946
The GPL is about the freedom of the customer not the vendor. You are already free to choose what tools you use. An end-user with closed or closable software that they depend on is not free, but dependent on the whims of the developer or the corporate strategy of the software company.
That is a very good argument for open source, but can you elaborate on how there's more freedom with GPL than with BSD (WTFPL and Apache)? While we really haven't released much as open source, the bits that are out have been licensed with Apache 2.0 (not my favourite, but I'm not complaining).
However, even if we disregard the idea of eventually publishing as an open source and just consider the core of our current project: our customer will end up with our source anyway, so I don't see how they would be dependent of our whims. Perhaps we could limit what they can do with it by licensing it as GPL, but I don't see the point.