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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by billziss on Thursday September 22, 2016 @06:52PM (#12561009)
If that is the only impediment, I will switch to GPL tomorrow.

I suspect that there is more than that. I suspect that people no longer like the GPL. I am actually one of those people.

My intent with WinFsp is to allow any open source project to use it without restrictions (commercial or otherwise). The only thing I want to restrict is closed source commercial uses (in which case I offer a commercial license).

Unfortunately I am not aware of an open source license that is compatible with other open source licenses and does not impose any restrictions on them. The only open source licenses that I know that allow unlimited open source use, also allow unlimited closed source use (which I would like to restrict).

If anyone points me to such a license I will be happy to consider it for WinFsp.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by CiPHPerCoder on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:05PM (#12567547)
GPL is fine for this use case. AGPL might be considered too aggressive for some people.

Don't let people bully you here though. Choose the license that makes sense for you. I think you want GPL, but that's not for me to say.

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