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Re:Light Table 0.7.0 by pbreit on Thursday November 20, 2014 @03:35PM (#8637990)
OP specifically cited companies that were wary of the license requirements with respect to code modifications. Not sure how it can get much clearer. The licenses are not even similar.
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Re:Light Table 0.7.0 by djur on Friday November 21, 2014 @12:04AM (#8639886)
I just don't see where "comfort" comes into it, unless it refers to people wanting to release proprietary modified versions or extensions. If that's the case, "please change your license, because I would like to distribute proprietary derivations of your software" is a different argument than "Please change your license, because I do not feel comfortable modifying GPL code". The latter makes it sound like GPL code has copyleft cooties that jump out of the code and onto developers.
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Re:Light Table 0.7.0 by pbreit on Friday November 21, 2014 @03:07PM (#8643122)
Yes, that's exactly the baggage that GPL carries.
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