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Apparently, ESR thinks the GPL is not needed anymore. (For those who don’t follow this type of thing, ESR is Eric Raymond, founder of the Open Source Initiative.) He cites Linux as an example of a project that he thinks would have grown even without the GPL.

He’s probably right about Linux. Linux could have become [...]