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Discussion on: GNU Public License is all but free and you should never use it

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Christopher McClellan

FWIW I license any libraries I create under MIT for the reasons you cite in your article. Basically, anything that is designed for reuse gets licensed for reuse. However, I have started to appreciate the GPL for applications that I create. I like knowing that derivatives of those will stay open.

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Matteo Joliveau

That's a perfectly reasonable use of the GPL and I definitely agree with you. Thought you might as well consider the MPL 2.0 (the one used for example by Firefox) which still protect your code without influencing other's application that might link to yours, for example through some API of some kind