> Stallman isn't exactly known for letting practicality and feasibility compromise his ideals. When it comes to license choice, he's always been about a specif

> Stallman isn't exactly known for letting practicality and feasibility compromise his ideals. When it comes to license choice, he's always been about a specific kind of pragmatism: what will in practice produce more free software? The GPL, LGPL, Affero GPL, etc. are means to that end employed in different situations. He could be empirically wrong with some of his choices (and probably is), but I don't see him as being particularly tied to the mechanism, vs. the outcome. I actually think there's a decent argument that the existence of the Affero GPL encourages more free software in specific niches. Some companies are willing to release their SaaS apps under the Affero GPL who wouldn't have been willing to release them under the BSD, LGPL, or GPL, because they fear those licenses enable proprietary competitors. For example, Launchpad is AGPL. If the AGPL didn't exist, my guess is that they'd just have stayed proprietary, like GitHub has.