Paul Sokolovsky

@almarklein: Thanks for reply, much appreciated! Let me go thru it and add some comments. Not for argument's sake, as I mentioned, it's not my intention to get the project...

> I have an aversion for GPL since it separates open source from commerce, building a wall between these two worlds Sorry, but why and how? That's definitely not true....

> though I would be reluctant to contribute, because I cannot copy any of my code and re-use it in another project (unless that's GPL too). Of course you can...

> companies can play a significant role in financing development of OS. Like e.g. [] Cultivating this won't work with GPL. It will with BSD/MIT. I'm sure "OS" is typo...

@almarklein: Thanks for discussion! I tried to pack many answers in my previous response, and don't have much to add. And I of course can very well see benefit in...

> However, if someone makes an improvement to the code that I contributed, things start to become complicated, because now it has "GPL-sauce" on it and it cannot be anything...

> Let's imagine the Python ecosystem, but consisting mostly of copyleft (e.g. GPL) licensed projects. It's improbable situation. GPL was conceived to stand as a shiny island among the proprietary...

> I recall open sourcing one of my first projects, and picking a GPL license for it. Then I had a discussion with Fernando Perez about the license and he...

I assume addressing this would involve submitting a ticket/PR to https://github.com/mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer ?

Continuation of https://github.com/windelbouwman/ppci/pull/124