For me as a customer, the GPL is a feature, not an "issue."
Of course, if you ship software for your hardware and want to lock your customers out of their own hardware, then I can see why you'd not choose it.
Of course, if you ship software for your hardware and want to lock your customers out of their own hardware, then I can see why you'd not choose it.
Actually the MIT open source license (and other similar ones) solves a completely different problem for me. It allows me to reuse this software for many different customers. It's slightly easier to do this when I tell them that I'm going to use "this open source library" vs. "my personal library that I'm granting you a license for this product, but I retain the right to use it for other customers".