"The problem is, it's decidedly less open and free for authors who prefer a more permissive license."
GPL-licensed software is Free software that stays Free. BSD software can become closed any time, something GPL software cannot. If you contribute to a BSD'ed project you take the risk of your competitor taking your code and making it a competitive advantage against you.
We may say GPL'ed software is "imprisonment resistant".
As for taking in Lamson code into Django, all that's needed is a GPL'ed fork of Django that can follow trunk very closely. GPL'ing Django is, in fact, turning that "imprisonment" mechanism on its head.
Any such code, of course, would have to be kept out of Ellington, for instance.
GPL-licensed software is Free software that stays Free. BSD software can become closed any time, something GPL software cannot. If you contribute to a BSD'ed project you take the risk of your competitor taking your code and making it a competitive advantage against you.
We may say GPL'ed software is "imprisonment resistant".
As for taking in Lamson code into Django, all that's needed is a GPL'ed fork of Django that can follow trunk very closely. GPL'ing Django is, in fact, turning that "imprisonment" mechanism on its head.
Any such code, of course, would have to be kept out of Ellington, for instance.
edit: second part of second paragraph was wrong