Comment by kelnos

> On one hand OSS authors select permissive license exactly because they want big corps to use their software.

I think you're reading too much into people's motivations. When I release something under a permissive license, it's because I don't care about it enough to license it under something like the GPL. Or I just don't want to deal with the possibility of there being license violations that I'd feel responsible for dealing with (if I'm not going to, then why bother licensing under a copyleft license?).

For the most part I don't really care who (if anyone) uses the stuff I release. Building a community around an open source project that I started could be fun and rewarding, sure. But honestly I'm not sure I'd even want big corporate users, since they're likely to expect things from me that I'm not willing to provide.

> On the other hand - OSS authors are unhappy about big corps using their software in a way that license allows them to.

Regardless, you're painting all of us with a very broad brush. Please don't assume anyone's motivations or licensing decisions fall under some simple, one-size-fits-all rubric that you have in your head.