Eric Raymond open source advocate and the man who inspired the opening up of Netscape/Mozilla with The Cathedral and the Bazaar comments on downsides of the GPL:
The GPL may be a community-building signalling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To believe that it matters, you have to believe that you live in a Type A universe where closed-source development is such an attractive proposition that you have to punish people for trying to move to it.
The Economic Case Against the GPL
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