"freedom of use" - "freedom of the software"
You're absolutely right. The GPL aims to liberate the code, BSD aims to liberate the developer.
The GPL imposes restrictions on the use of code, such that no developer can steal the code away, close it up, and prevent others from benefitting from it. It's very much like a tit-for-tat. People developing GPL'd code worked hard, and they don't want to see big companies benefitting from it without some kind of reimbursement. That reimbursement can be money, or it can be bugfixes. Either way, it makes the GPL developers happy, and nobody has lost their freedoms.
BSD, on the other hand, allows companies to steal up the code, close it up so nobody can use it, and the BSD developers seem simply happy that the companies are using their code instead of writing their own, crappy code. Nevermind the fact that they're not being reimbursed in any tangible way.
That's how I see it, anyway.
