I do not think that GPL is the determining factor of why Django or Rails are popular.
It is not clear that GPL scares off potential users. I will go out on the limp to say that most potential users of web2py will be in the capacity of app developers, not framework developers. They might be scared if they don't understand it as intended, which is why some said it needs to be clarified. Once the licensing is clear, they have nothing to be scared about. As for framework developers, sure GPL is not permissive for commercial intentions. So, if you want to branch of web2py, customizing the framework, possibly improving it, and want to close source, then no you can't do that with GPL. But those cases are few, and arguably not what most potential users care about. On Dec 15, 1:07 pm, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's not worthwhile fiddling around with the exception since the GPL stigma > will remain. > > It's clear that GPL scares off potential users. > > I come from a background of relentlessly lowering barriers to adoption. I > would very much like to see Web2py usage go way up.
