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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by adrianN on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:37AM (#13994257)
You're right of course. I should have said "the hassle of copyleft".
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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by clishem on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:40PM (#13998667)
That is not what the FSF writes.
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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by aplaice on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:56PM (#13998794)
According to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html :

> It is not worth the trouble to use copyleft for most small programs.

and they recommend Apache 2.0. What are you disagreeing with?

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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by clishem on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:27PM (#13999027)
Thanks for the reference, I missed that section! 300 lines, so mostly scripts that this recommendation applies to. That's not 'small projects' if you ask me.
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