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by seanhunter 805 days ago
Can't speak in general (and I'm doubtful you can either) but at the big corporate where I currently work we recently opensourced some stuff.

We (the dev team) were suggesting the AGPL but when we got advice from outside counsel[1] they strongly recommended Apache 2 or MIT because of technical legal stuff to do with how the license is drafted. The concern wasn't due to any sort of GPL "virality" type concerns it was to do with the wording of all the linking and "conveying"/distribution stuff which they felt wasn't drafted very well and might be weak if we later tried to pursue someone who was violating the license.

[1] From one of the most reputable big law firms in the US specializing in IP issues