doc: More tweaks to the comments on copyleft section

* doc/8sync.texi: Tweaked documentation and added a new paragraph

diff --git a/doc/8sync.texi b/doc/8sync.texi
index b5be59c437079e3e92ba71e62292c305f5a06565..bf7484ce70ea880ef4723cb99ddca4c77c4fc7b6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/8sync.texi
+++ b/doc/8sync.texi
@@ -155,12 +155,25 @@ Though it is not a requirement, we request you use 8sync to build free
   software rather than use it to contribute to the growing world of
   proprietary software.
 
   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}.)
 
 (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!
 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!