[philjackson]

"GPL is way too dogmatic, and given the fact that most free software actually is written by people with a paycheck"

I don't think anyone, even Stallman, thinks making money from free software is a bad thing.

I worked at a company (that you've heard of) who basically ran their business on Free Software saving them God knows how much time, money and effort. The CEO announced one day (in public) that he didn't like the GPL as it was business unfriendly. He made no effort to hide the fact that he wanted to take code written by others (often for fun) and convert it to profit without giving _anything_ back. The GPL is a wonderful license.

I don't understand your mysql example. It sounds like the GPL did its job in that case.