If you intend to spend 1000 hours extending a gpl project someone put 30 minutes into, and you wouldn't have wanted to use GPL, perhaps don't use that project as a base? Spend 1000.5 hours and pick whatever license you like
The point of copyleft is that the author wants the code to remain available to the public, not to give it as a gift to whoever wants to build their own closed source system
The point of copyleft is that the author wants the code to remain available to the public, not to give it as a gift to whoever wants to build their own closed source system