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I work for a US state agency that funds FOSS projects, and all projects that I write in-house or fund in the future will be GPL.
More of this, please. Have you dealt with any pushback?
Not on the stuff I write in-house. I haven't had any new external projects funded since I started here. I have asked for some current projects that are MIT to switch to GPL, but that's a can of worms, and none have pulled the trigger yet.
Gotcha, that's unfortunate. Fingers crossed, soon, and you'll be able to GPL that shit from the start! I hope you are successful in converting some projects to GPL. I have heard of some people going the other way from GPL to BSD because of their idea of what “freedom” means.