> there are a lot of people, especially at companies, which won't touch the GPL Exactly. And for reasons which not everyone is aware of, for example anti-paten

> there are a lot of people, especially at companies, which won't touch the GPL Exactly. And for reasons which not everyone is aware of, for example anti-patent clauses. What people classify as "GPL-hate" is often a very pragmatic approach. I've seen this a number of times: companies have nothing against sharing improvements to the code, but do have a problem with a) having to share everything they wrote and b) anti-patent clauses which are landmines. And at companies I worked with, (b) was actually the bigger issue, especially if you build and distribute physical devices with software.