[cmurtagh]

"the GPL is too restrictive and dogmatic to be usable in many cases"

Does anyone else see the total irony in this? Considering that both Ruby and Git (two of the core technologies GitHub runs on) are both GPL. People can use whatever OSS license they want, I certainly have no gripe with him using the MIT license, but I could do without the dogma.

[wbkang]

It's because the software does not link with Ruby or Git. It's just like most people don't mind using GNU userland tools...