software rather than use it to contribute to the growing world of
proprietary software.
-The choice of the LGPL for 8sync was a strategic one, though in general,
- we encourage stronger copyleft.
+The choice of the LGPL for 8sync was a strategic one.
+This is not a general recommendation to use the LGPL instead of the GPL
+ for all libraries.
+In general, we encourage stronger copyleft.
(For more thinking on this position, see
@uref{https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html,
Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library}.)
+Although 8sync provides some unique features, its main functionality is as
+ an asynchronous event loop, and there are many other asynchronous event
+ loop systems out there such as Node.js for Javascript and Asyncio for
+ Python (there are others as well).
+It is popular in some of these communities to hold anti-copyleft positions,
+ which is unfortunate, and many community members seem to be adopting
+ these positions because other developers they look up to are holding
+ them.
+If you have come from one of these communities and are exploring 8sync, we
+ hope reading this will help you reconsider your position.
+
In particular, if you are building a library or application that uses
8sync in some useful way, consider releasing your program under the GNU
GPL or GNU AGPL!