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A comment on In defense of BSD licenses (response to Zed Shaw).
Many,many people do not understand the GPL.
In my opinion, this is the major drawback of the GPL: It's complexity. I've read it a dozen of times and still I'm not sure about some corner cases.
This leads to
a) Programmers who are not willing to use it and prefer a much simpler license, such as BSD.
b) To people spreading misinformation about the GPL that already worsens this situation.
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Many,many people do not understand the GPL.
In my opinion, this is the major drawback of the GPL: It's complexity. I've read it a dozen of times and still I'm not sure about some corner cases.
This leads to
a) Programmers who are not willing to use it and prefer a much simpler license, such as BSD.
b) To people spreading misinformation about the GPL that already worsens this situation.