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People throw around the phrase "cognitive dissonance" lot, too loosely probably. But BSD folks who constantly tout the virtues of their license for the things that it allows downstream developers to do and then complain when someone actually exercises those options are the single best real world example of cognitive dissonance that I've ever encountered.

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That's like saying that you can't be mad about someone not repaying you a loan because you haven't written up a legal contract defining the conditions. Or like saying it's hypocritical to defend free speech and criticize someone for what they've said.

Just because you don't agree with an action doesn't mean you must find it ethical to use the Force of Law to punish it.

It's nothing at all like that.

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