"Third, because of the freedom extended by the two most popular open source licenses these infrastructure vendors can host successful open source projects without constraint. And because of their scale, they can do it at a fraction of the cost by the startup would."<p>This is why we've kept GPL thus far. So far the only people who seem to have a huge problem with it are for-profits who want to monetize us or put their brand in front of us without paying for it.<p>If you're releasing service code under an ultra-liberal license you're just working for Amazon for free.