Picking a license

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message
<a26e8cac-6561-40f6-ae3f-cfe176ecb49e at l31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Paul 
Boddie wrote:

> Although people can argue that usage of the GPL prevents people from
> potentially contributing because they would not be able to sell
> proprietary versions of the software ...

It doesn’t prevent them from selling proprietary versions of their own 
contributions, any more than any other licence does.

The fact that their contribution may not be much use without the rest of 
that GPL’d code is entirely another matter. It was their choice to build on 
the work of others; they could have reinvented it from scratch themselves.