I agree that it sounds more like one developer trying to pee in the porridge pot than a genuine licence problem. For all the people screaming about how GPL for

I agree that it sounds more like one developer trying to pee in the porridge pot than a genuine licence problem. For all the people screaming about how GPL forces X, Y and Z, there is a really simple solution that has been tried and proven to work before: just DUAL LICENCE A dual licence allows you to work inside the GPL walled garden, and also outside of it in the real world. You can literally have the best of both worlds. It preserves maximum freedoms for the users. What it doesn't do is advance the agenda of the GPL, which is to create a self contained and self sufficient ecosystem consisting solely of the GPL. So when dual licencing you can say, well, we're not at that utopian programmer's paradise yet, so it doesn't matter, but the less commitment people have to a strong GPL, the longer it will take to reach that ideal world.