This isn’t to say that a license, open source or not, should be a cause for complete trust or distrust by itself, but upholders of copyleft licenses could be interpreted by some as committed to protect a free philosophy in their product. That’s the reason AliasVault made the decision to swap:
The license, of course, wouldn’t have meant as much if AliasVault wasn’t as involved with the privacy community, or if its service didn’t prove as much value to the community. But I feel that a copyleft license complements AliasVault’s other trustworthy aspects.
With things like uutils, I have an utmost respect for the devs, and I could very well be wrong, but it seems like they may not care to put that much thought into this sort of thing! Their security benefits over coreutils make me very excited, but I can’t shake off the possibility that proprietary abuse could befall the software, like with what happened with MINIX and Intel. I also am concerned with how the attitude of the uutils devs will impact the future of uutils. It isn’t just me who’s concerned, either.