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    I created an account just to upvote this answer. I was one of those taken in by the "Gpl is evil" propaganda, until I read this. Thanks for the great links & answer. Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 12:54
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    I still hate the viral nature of GPL (I've no business telling anyone what to do with code they wrote, just the code I wrote), but you've made me hate it in general a little bit less. Very nice answer. Commented Sep 29, 2015 at 16:19
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    While a very good answer, I think its worth mentioning one possible down-side with dual-licensing approach is it means all copyright holders must agree, in practice it normally means being the copyright holder to the entire code-base. That may inhibit you using code from other GPL projects and even be off-putting to other developers contributing larger changes (assuming they need to hand over copyright of their work for the project to include it, sign CLA's... etc). Commented Jan 3, 2016 at 4:54