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by throwaway2046 419 days ago
> somehow the GPL seems to have gone out of vogue.

Which GPL is that? The GPL 2 and 3 are incompatible with each other, making cross contribution between different FOSS projects practically impossible. The "v2 or later" licensing model does nothing to remedy the problem. See Rob Landley's talk on this topic.