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Problem: the letters "G, P, L" are toxic to a huge number of companies. This has nothing to do with the controversy around Stallman. It's because Microsoft spent over a billion dollars in the 1990s mis-educating the market that GPL software is "viral" and if present can "infect" non-GPL software with the GPL license.

The problem would go away if you renamed the license to something else. It's that stupid.

A lot of the flavor of the week licenses exist for this reason, as well as to address some of the weak corner cases of the AGPL.

parent api 5 years ago

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