> My personal experience with devs who don't want to GPL their code or contribute to GPL projects is that they're under the impression that having a permissive

> My personal experience with devs who don't want to GPL their code or contribute to GPL projects is that they're under the impression that having a permissive license on their own project will get $corp to use it and, somehow, they'll profit from $corp using it. A lot of big corporations will not allow GPL dependencies to be used in their codebases, and not having a GPL license will definitely make software more usable by those corporations. How the developer expects to profit by giving something away for free is definitely a mystery, but there is also some truth to the idea that a GPL license does scare companies away.