People who have power over you are, by definition, already empowered. Whether or not you give them something for free isn't going to move the needle.
Disprove that.
As a bonus point, leverage is exactly what you may be giving them by licensing with the BSD/MIT/... There's no guarantee that they'll gain leverage, but if they see and seize the opportunity then that's what they'll get.
EDIT: The APL 2.0 is kind of interesting here because it doesn't really do that much over BSD/MIT/... except for the patent grant thing. The patent thing actually brings it much closer to 'acceptable' for me, personally, because a lot of instances of conglomerates exercising their power has been through software patents.
Why did cockroach decide on their new business license?
[0] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb-community-license/
That's obviously bs, and that's what I was responding to.