> Let's all wait for BSD license apologists to insist true freedom is the freedom to blackmail your users.
You assume that the author would have continued working on it if the code was GPLed. If you look at the list of contributors, you'll notice there's only 4 people (besides him) who have contributed any code [1]. That means that had he not continued working on it, the project would have died long ago. GPL doesn't somehow make code write itself. Unless there are incentives for programmers, all projects can perish regardless of what license they use.
In this case, you could also argue that the sole reason why OSXFuse still exists and is being updated is because it's BSD and the author continued releasing it because it was a binary-only release.
You assume that the author would have continued working on it if the code was GPLed. If you look at the list of contributors, you'll notice there's only 4 people (besides him) who have contributed any code [1]. That means that had he not continued working on it, the project would have died long ago. GPL doesn't somehow make code write itself. Unless there are incentives for programmers, all projects can perish regardless of what license they use.
In this case, you could also argue that the sole reason why OSXFuse still exists and is being updated is because it's BSD and the author continued releasing it because it was a binary-only release.
[1] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/graphs/contributors