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GPL has obviously utterly failed to solve this problem. "Doubling down" on it will only serve to further isolate any code which adopts it. There will always be people out there who will be happy to license their code freely, and those people will be the ones whose code gets used widely. Highly restrictive and viral licenses like GPL only serve to stifle the code which it encompasses and ensure it almost never gets used as people continue to excise its poison from their codebases.


The Linux kernel is fine. It's probably even better thanks to the GPL.

A big chunk of WebKit is LGPL and Blink too as a consequence. They might be successful thanks to that too.

Honestly, I don't find your obvious so obvious.




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