> I'm not sure what planet you live on, but the GPL and other various copy-left licenses have been on the slow decline for years The planet that recognizes tha

> I'm not sure what planet you live on, but the GPL and other various copy-left licenses have been on the slow decline for years The planet that recognizes that proclaimed righteousness (what I wrote about) has nothing to do with adoption (what you wrote about). If anything it makes the righteousness stick out because it goes against what people are choosing. I rarely see GPL devs demonized for how they choose to give their code away, or blog posts and evangelists espousing anti-GPL, or the straggling person "eventually coming out and calling it poisonous", or justifications on non-GPL changes as claiming corporate harm. I have no statement on license prevalence and it is unrelated to my comment. My statement is about justification used and being overly prideful of their work. Change and be done. One way is not necessarily better than another, and companies are not all bad, and that's not only who you are hurting with these changes, etc. But when I hear complaints about the company using up all their hard work like it's some zero-sum coffer being depleted, I don't pity them. I know the intent is guilt and I don't think it's a good look.