> A major problem with the GPL from the point of view of a closed source software vendor is that you can't integrate it into a closed source project. Commercia

> A major problem with the GPL from the point of view of a closed source software vendor is that you can't integrate it into a closed source project. Commercial software usually has the same problem. Those dang companies won't give me their source for free, and they demand a license fee to integrate their products into mine! The issue with the GPL is less the GPL than the multitude of authors for any one project. There are many single-author GPL projects which happily accept money for a non-GPL version of the software. That becomes much harder when you have 40 authors, some of whom are dead..