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If your project is sufficiently popular, that's safe; otherwise maybe not.

As someone else mentioned, when a giant corp absorbs a free project, you can reasonably expect them to maintain it. If you GPL the project, that won't happen. But if it's a popular project, then if it's GPL it will attract more maintenance from people who can't free-ride on the corp's efforts.

(Note that the relevant measure of "popular" is not number of users, but number of people enthusiastic enough to actually contribute.)



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