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> But the LGPL is still more restrictive as it requires you to share your changes. Not as much of a disincentive but it still discourages community.

Not a fan of GPL (because of developer restrictiveness), but I don't see how requiring changes to be shared implies more restrictiveness or discourages community. Can you explain the reasoning here?

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In the early days of a software project, the most likely people to use it are business programmers: front line devs who have no say in corporate policy.

Typically, they want to use your code to save their own time. The code rarely does exactly what they need, so they almost always need to make changes. And since they are required under their NDA not to disclose any company related work, this prevents them from incorporating your code.

I have no feelings about this one way or another, but it's an answer to your question.

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