Many consider the GPL to be the gold standard of lisencing. However, in instances where public and private might meet, there might be some unforseen issues. John Hunter writes about the subtle differences in his Licensing Pitch . The advantages for programing languages and analysis tools to work with for-profit comanies is obvious -- look at MATLAB et al.
I encourage people to consider a BSD style license, particularly for things that might be of comercial use.
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