* Darryl Plank darryl@darrylplank.com [2015-07-13 00:39:24 +0200]:
To my knowledge, the FSF has only ever stated three reasons why copyleft might not be desirable:
- For very short programs, where a simpler and much shorter license might
be more appropriate from a practical point of view. The FSF web site gives a very short and simple license for such purposes.
- When extending free software that already exists, to avoid using a license
different from that used by the original developers.
- As a more or less short term tactic, as a way of making free software more
well known and better appreciated when it was not. For such cases, the LGPL was developed.
I would add
4) If you want to push a standard (e.g. with Ogg Vorbis).
Regards, Matthias