The Death Of A Software License

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"I've spoken to countless project leaders over the years that selected the license not on the advice of legal counsel, not because of benefits for themselves or their customers, but because that's what everyone else used. I’d bet my savings that a catalogue of every GPL licensed project would show a very small percentage were derivatives, or had to use it. Most leaders will tell you they selected the GPL because it was expected, but I’ll save peer pressure for another blog."

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