On: Forty years of GNU and the free software movement

[red_admiral]

Some of the companies I've worked with, and their lawyers especially, have explicitly said that for them anything GPL in the application layer was a no-no (Linux as OS was fine though). This is on code that will never be distributed outside internal systems.

[teddyh → red_admiral]

Company lawyers being weird and wrong about GPL, film at 11. The GPL paranoia strikes deep.

[cies → teddyh]

AGPL though is avoided by the plague by corp lawyers, and for good reasons. Hence I like it for some projects.

[teddyh → cies]

No, not for very good reasons.

[type0 → red_admiral]

> anything GPL in the application layer was a no-no (Linux as OS was fine though).

well, just proves how hypocritical it is