Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
Most people who are seriously involved in open source know that GPL is ironically one of the least free licenses. So, basically, if any company wants to incorporate a GPL product into their project for distribution, they would have to essentially make their entire project&#x27;s source code public also under GPL - Which is a completely undesirable thing to do for any company. The bad part about GPL is that it applies to everyone except the licence owner.<p>GPL is just the FSF&#x27;s way of saying f<i></i>* you to companies who didn&#x27;t bother to read up on what GPL actually means. It doesn&#x27;t actually fulfil its purpose as an open source license - It just puts all the leverage in the hands of the license owner.<p>Hypothetically, if the GPL also applied to the creator of the GPL product THEN it would be fair - But that&#x27;s not possible because the creator would never sue themselves for breaching their own GPL.