> This is the closest anyone has ever come to convincing me to use GPL instead of MIT license. > But I still want to support small developers with anything I p

> This is the closest anyone has ever come to convincing me to use GPL instead of MIT license. > But I still want to support small developers with anything I produce for fun, and I'm not willing to give that up to spite the big developers. Another line of thought that may help you choose a license: Do not think only about other developers. Think about the final users of your code that will be running your algorithms on their computers. The GPL protects the right of these users to see and modify the code they run (your code). So-called permissive licenses, on the other hand, let middlemen to strip this right from your users. Users of your code are in fact freer thanks to copyleft licenses.