Daniel,

I very much agree with the points you made.

and wanted to particularly emphasize one of them:

You mention:

"(I've seen a lot of boilerplate text amounting to “free for academic use,” which immediately rules out the GPL and BSD licenses.)"


Let's clarify that any license that includes restrictions like:

* "For academic use only" or
* "Free for research only"

can not be considered an Open Source license because it excludes a field of endeavor. Something that is contrary to item 6 of the Open Source Definition:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd


Luis