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The GPL's compatibility clauses are a pain for everyone, and in return the GPL provides nothing to anyone not already using it.

Maybe we should intentionally poison-pill our open source licenses to be GPLv3-incompatible; after all, the GPL is designed to actively leverage network effects to establish monopoly control over how the rest of us share code.

Responding with the same tactics seems fair.

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> Responding with the same tactics seems fair.

So you are going to combat the network effects that would establish monopoly control over how people share code by...trying to establish monopoly control over how people share code? Doesn't that seem a wee bit hypocritical to you?

Seeing as only people who use the GPL would be affected in this hypothetical, no.

And the GPL only affects people who want to write proprietary software. How is the GPL somehow more evil than proprietary software in your worldview?

> And the GPL only affects people who want to write proprietary software.

A GPL-incompatible license isn't proprietary.

> How is the GPL somehow more evil than proprietary software in your worldview?

In the same way that communism is more evil than capitalism.

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