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>>zdw+(OP)
For me it's very simple - when I see GPL 3, I move on - even for personal uses.

I can't imagine why I'd want anything to do with this license either. It's an unnecessary burden. Just stay away from it.

>>Proven+OY5
Why is GPL 3 objectionable for personal uses?

>>EvanAn+Id6
The completely serious answer is that some have turned this into a religion. GPL software is simply impure to them, so they won't touch it.

>>bachme+Mg6
Which brings us to the question: would we be here if there had been no GPL at all?

>>square+2n6
No we wouldn't.

The UNIX world and Windows would keep taking BSD code, assuming the court case would have ended the same way as it did, and that was it.

The GPL haters tend to forget that GCC was pretty much ignored until Sun started the trend to split UNIX into user and developer editions, and without GNU there wouldn't be a userland for Linus to plug into Linux.

Whatever, all UNIX clones that came after Linux (specially for IoT) are BSD/MIT based, so the long term roadmap is already quite obvious.