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Comment by DamonHD | Hacker News Reader

You're going to hit the religious wars on this one, but for me basically all code goes under Apache 2 to maximise freedom of people to use that code for any purpose, likewise Solderpad for electronics and CC0 for data where I can. If you want your stuff to be used, rather than getting glory for it, the most liberal licence possible is likely to help IMHO.

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> all code goes under Apache 2 to maximise freedom of people to use that code for any purpose

GPL do not prevent using the code for commercial reasons, does it? IIRC, it just ensure that any derivative work is open-sourced as well. Which I would like to.

> rather than getting glory for it

It's really not about the glory, but more about ensuring that work done on the compiler can come back upstream, so that every one can benefit from it.

Usually I don't mind it, but in this case, if someone can do this better than me, I'd love to be able to learn from it.

GPL prevents use in commercial or other applications where it is not then appropriate to share the resulting code. I prefer to allow such uses. For example, for some years there were a handful of lines of code of mine in a phone system helping munge JPEGs not to crash some receiving phones. My original code was Apache 2 (or BSD-like), telco was clearly not going to publish their switch source code, world was a better place. Would not have been legit with GPL original. But people feel very strongly about this stuff.

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