License selection for free software

[Paul Rubin]

vivainio at gmail.com (Ville M. Vainio) writes:
> In practice, the probability of hijacking of source code by an evil
> corporation is very low for most projects. And even when it did
> happen, the evil corporation would likely submit patches. 

If they're going to submit patches then they shouldn't have any problem
with the GPL.

> The more users an open source project has, the better.

That is simply not a valid premise, as others have explained.  The
priorities of any particular project might give weight to the number
of users or might emphasize something else altogether.  And some
projects are just plain bad (think of malware or spamming tools), so
it's better for the world in general if they fail and have no users
regardless of the developers' wishes.