The tone in "Many people" and "go out of their way to make sure" makes it sounds quite different. Almost as if the majority of developers were actively refusing

The tone in "Many people" and "go out of their way to make sure" makes it sounds quite different. Almost as if the majority of developers were actively refusing to touch GPL code. I've been working with many developers and I can say with confidence that the large majority has only mild preferences and does not refuse to use or send patches to a project simply due to licensing. Asking people to change license of an existing project is quite demanding and takes more effort that doing nothing which makes it an unfair comparison.