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by chengdulittlea 240 days ago
To put it simply, I made it that way so

- Other GPL software can just include features in my programs if they wanted to.

- I can remove myself from the responsibilities of potential free maintenance burden if approached by commercial entities.

- On paper it prevent crappy Chinese companies here from taking the code as their own (which is unlikely judging by the nature of this program, but if they want they probably would do it anyway just like the case with ffmpeg).