> To be clear, the issue is that this code that people produced for free is too free[?] No, it is not free enough. It is indeed paradoxical, but you have to r

> To be clear, the issue is that this code that people produced for free is too free[?] No, it is not free enough. It is indeed paradoxical, but you have to remember that we are not dealing with the natural world, we are dealing with a world with copyright in place. If the GPL is viral then copyright is a zombie. You can whack it once, but it will never stop coming back. GPL has to be viral because of the zombie-like nature of copyright. It's a hack and a pragmatic solution but defeating copyright for software entirely would be the ultimate solution.