Eventually every successful IDE becomes extensible. Up to that point GPL is perfectly fine. As soon as IDE provides extensibility one starts having problems wi

Eventually every successful IDE becomes extensible. Up to that point GPL is perfectly fine. As soon as IDE provides extensibility one starts having problems with GPL and it's viral nature with linking. GPL is forcing IDE into a "sandbox" where the whole distro must be GPL-compatible at the point of distribution. The workaround is often with the expense of user experience where one has to separately install extensions just because of licesnsing.