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Then the gpl is a bad choice for them as a license?

• JoachimSchipper 16y ago
  It does make it harder to make money from your work, and it's the closest you can get to that while still using a (well-known) open source license. I have no doubt that lots of people are indeed using the GPL for that purpose; look at pretty much any GPL-vs-BSD debate for further proof. That said, yes, the GPL doesn't actually make it impossible to turn a profit.
• rbanffy 16y ago
  Not really. MySQL was multi-licensed and MySQL AB, Sun and now Oracle can re-license it under any license their clients want, provided they pay the price. MySQL AB was sold for about a billion dollars, proving you can make a whole lot of money while still writing software that can be obtained through a license that respect the rights of the users.