I'm actually leaning off of permissive licenses unless it is for something important that needs to be standardized (like Opus) or like what 10gen does by having the core copyleft yet the drivers permissive.

With projects like jQuery, they went from being dual licensed with the GPL and then went just MIT. I think this was around the time they formed the jQuery Foundation and potentially saw the GPL scare away potential commercial contributors.

This is why I have been more interested lately in the MPL version 2. A project like jQuery could keep the code copyleft (like the GPL) but then not worry about issues with licensing if they wanted it linked or included with FLOSS or commercial software.

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