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The "danger" is BSD licenses are highly permissive, you can take BSD licensed software, modify it and sell it and never return the changes to the community or release the source to customers.

This means all the work of the OSS community is 'free' for corporations to take.

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Coders are not idiots, they know that possibility and still use the license for their open source code. So, "danger" is a silly word to describe this.

So basically, if you make some improvements to something, you get to control those improvements. What a horrible idea that is.

Note: this is clearly sarcasm, and it pains me that I need to put this here, but some won't get it.

Considering it doesn't sustain the free software you needed to improve in the first place, yes, that is a terrible idea.

Eh you are not losing control with GPL. If you choose not to contribute back (when using a non copy left license), you are choosing to not provide control to anyone else.

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