I beg to differ. I'm always happy to use external GPL libraries as an excuse for making stuff Open Source. Whenever I talked to unsure customers or managers, this was the single most convincing argument.
Of course, this only works if people aren't strictly against creating Free Software, but in that case you have lost anyway.
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Why not the MIT or BSD license? It would be more useful for other developers.
I beg to differ. I'm always happy to use external GPL libraries as an excuse for making stuff Open Source. Whenever I talked to unsure customers or managers, this was the single most convincing argument.
Of course, this only works if people aren't strictly against creating Free Software, but in that case you have lost anyway.
So you actively use the viral aspect of the GPL to make more stuff Open Source. Probably what Stallman intended. :)
> Probably what Stallman intended.
Probably? Is is exactly what he intended and what he asks the community to do. :-)
Quiet, Richard Stallman might hear you!