It prevents a group of individuals or a company to make a better closed source derivative, and screw the original project.
In my experience, MIT/BSD projects tend to be smaller, fragmented and with a lot of incompatible forks when compared with GPL projects. Of course there are exceptions. Massimo On Dec 12, 10:08 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The disadvantages of GPL are somewhat clear. > > Are there any advantages of GPL (with respect to "frameworks")?