> Could LGPL license limit it's growth and popularity? Not really. A lot of people license their code as BSD in the hope that some massive company picks it up

> Could LGPL license limit it's growth and popularity? Not really. A lot of people license their code as BSD in the hope that some massive company picks it up and they either get famous or a fat consulting contract. In reality what we've seen e.g. Amazon do is just copy the idea for themselves and pay their internal engineers. GPL gives you more force, you can get money out of them to remove its restrictions.