> Despite the rhetoric about "freedom" the GPL is a huge disincentive for developers to participate. A larger code base that contains a GPL component must also be GPL. This is a nonstarter for most business users.

I think developers should really start to question this. Why is a GPL component a problem and who is really inconvenienced by it and for what reason are they being inconvenienced by it? What do they want to do that GPL becomes a problem for them doing it?