> strong philosophical objections to being forced to give away my intellectual property Non-sequitar. If you used the GPL, you'd be doing so voluntarily, so yo

> strong philosophical objections to being forced to give away my intellectual property Non-sequitar. If you used the GPL, you'd be doing so voluntarily, so you wouldn't be being "forced" to do anything. > a great many of those projects are maintained only to the extent the author decides to do so An issue that is even more pronounced with closed source software, where _all_ such projects are maintained only to the extent the author decides to do so.