GPL is not designed for academic research. MIT and BSD licenses are, but the GPL is certainly not. > Just because the people involved in FOSS are not doing thi

GPL is not designed for academic research. MIT and BSD licenses are, but the GPL is certainly not. > Just because the people involved in FOSS are not doing this directly for money does not mean they're giving away the fruit of their labor for free, or being coerced as Soviet Communism was known for Read my reply to PG. I wasn't trying to imply that GNU has any similarity to the USSR; that's very silly. I actually support the ideals of GNU, but I'm not ideological about it. I'm fine with selling closed software, so long as one is not just leeching off open source without contributing anything back.