[fooker]

Doesn't GPL seem more palatable now?

All the big companies have their own private fork resulting in zero contributions to the main project.

[mkl]

GPL wouldn't prevent that. If a big company is running their own fork of GPL software on a server they control there's no obligation to provide the code to anyone else.

Maybe you're thinking of AGPL? That seems as likely to lead to no adoption as adoption with code contributions.