In message <84a26d03-03b3-47d9-
a1f9-107470b87...@k2g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, Patrick Maupin wrote:

> I also firmly believe, as I have stated before, that the GPL is a much
> more commercial license.  If you want to make money off something,
> then, no doubt, GPL keeps your competitors from being able to take
> what you wrote and redistribute it as closed source.  But, frankly I
> view that as more of a business issue than a moral issue.

Nevertheless, it’s probably a big factor in why the GPL has become the 
single most popular open-source licence.
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