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This just doesn’t make sense to me. The best license is the one that meets the constraints of your situation. Good luck getting *GPL software onto iOS, for example. And yes, that’s Apple / Apple users’ problem, but it also means that iOS just can never use your software, excluding it from tons of users.

Personally I don’t mind something like MIT / Apache. If you wanna hack it and not guarantee stability, just hack on and make it clear in your culture, and companies relying on it get the instability as their problem. How you support your software isn’t the same question as how you license it.



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