Z:gnu-www-ja-pragmatic--0898a4-The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Gu/en

The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says no to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing&mdash;that the GPL &ldquo;excludes&rdquo; some proprietary software developers who &ldquo;need to be brought into the free software community.&rdquo;