Comment by ahachete

AGPL and copyleft licenses are not restrictive, they provide forward (open source) guarantees. The only thing they "restrict" is the ability to remove freedoms. Therefore is not a restriction, is a guarantee. A guarantee that the project will endure as open source.

I wouldn't go as far as calling permissive licensing "restrictive" because they actually allow for reducing freedoms; but copyleft is definitely not restrictive at all, it's the opposite.

Having said that, I like and appreciate both kind of licenses and I have and will continue creating open source software using ones or the others.