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This definition of "can't" means there is no such thing as "won't".


Ummm...no. Won't implies you have a choice. Can't implies that it's not an option.

Working for one of those large companies, you simply don't have an option.

And the people without choices vastly outnumber the people who do have choices.

Frankly, most developers are probably happy using whatever code, under whatever license, that's available. It's the people who run the business who typically make the decisions about what's OK and what's not.

So it's developers who are punished by GPL, by and large, because many can't use the code. It's not helping those developers, and nothing zealots say or do will convince the legal department at those companies that they should change their position on (A)GPL.




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