tisk tisk, so many downvotes and knee jerk reactions, but this is pragmatically correct. GPL is unpopular, and if you want people to use your software, it is t

tisk tisk, so many downvotes and knee jerk reactions, but this is pragmatically correct. GPL is unpopular, and if you want people to use your software, it is the wrong license to choose. Should it be? Perhaps not. ...but I don't think the parent comment is nearly as wrong as people seem to think. It doesn't matter if the GPL technically is a better or worse license; the fact is that (perhaps indeed driven by large corporations) GPL has a very negative image right now, and since we do live in a 'look at my popular github repo with oh so many stars, aren't I popular, oh btw hire me pls' world now, that is actually a big deal. The question is not, 'should I use GPL?', because the answer is no, if you want to have a successful popular open source project. The question is; how do we actually change the perception of GPL so the answer becomes yes? I'm not sure... but I think it's a far more important question. (I can certainly say that I no longer use the GPL, after using it for many years, largely because it was requested I remove it from projects. What do you do in that situation? Since I really don't care that much why not just put it under something else? I don't have a good answer.)