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Surely you are not suggesting that people who can write kick-ass code (enough so that more than a handful of people want to use it in their projects), cannot ch

Surely you are not suggesting that people who can write kick-ass code (enough so that more than a handful of people want to use it in their projects), cannot choose their license properly? After all, regardless of GPL rhetoric, the BSD, Apache and MIT licenses are also very popular and someone who does a little digging can find exactly the license he is looking for.......unless he/she intentionally chose GPL! Also, I dont believe anyone today is silly to believe that Microsoft or "unknown large corporation" will really steal their ruby/python/java code. Most big companies choose their libraries and tools very carefully and are more concerned about lawsuits as opposed to spending some developer time to re-write some library.

jasonkester 17y ago
Surely you're not suggesting that anybody besides you understands the differences between any of these 30 open source licenses. I've been writing software professionally for 15 years and I can quote you the initials of a few of them, but not even the names. I honestly don't have a clue as to the contents of those licenses, and I just plain don't care. Sure I've contributed a fair pile of open source software. But it's just code that I've put out on the internet, with no silly license attached. It's entirely possible that some of the places I've stuck that code have presented me a list of checkboxes to randomly select a license, so one of them probably got checked. I can't quite understand why anybody takes this stuff seriously enough to spend even 5 minutes comparing licenses.