I just re-licensed whole project under the FSF GNU GPL v3+. Of course, book remains under public domain.
It seems to me that permissive licenses (mostly, Apache, and MIT) rose in popularity mostly because of web development; they also suit companies, universities releasing their FOSS code better then copyleft. And that's fine.
As a sole developer, I'd like to retain some control over code, and maybe even benefit some from its creation, permissive licenses are just too permissive to do that. A reason for re-licensing was that there were not even symbolic support on Patreon. On the other hand, if FOSS project becomes valuable enough, not even GNU GPL can save it from being abused.
Project as it is right now is in very early pre-alpha stage, i.e. not usable. Code base will certainly grow, and sooner-or-later, I hope, it'll become valuable. So, re-licensing now, before that happens, is just a preemptive move, to avoid any possible misunderstandings.
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