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I personally prefer the GPL v3 or GPL v2 for software I've put work into and the 0BSD for small practice projects I do (since I really don't care what happens to that code and, quite frankly, don't know any situation in which someone would wan't to use it.) The reason I prefer the GPL to the "permissive" licenses is because permissive licenses allow people to lock up the source code, thereby depriving the end user of the freedoms you granted the person who closed sourced it, whereas the GPL makes sure that all freedoms you give to someone are passed on. However, I don't think that permissive licenses are useless, they are very useful for things that will have to be used accross the world and internet (e.g. POSTFIX & NetBSD) mostly because companies are not usually willing to open source their code and guarantee freedom to it's users. In a technical since the BSD licenses, the MIT licenses, etc are more *permissive*, but **IN MY OPION** the GPL is *freer*. Also this article is one I specifically remember as pushing me more towards the GPL:
Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library (HTTP)