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one of the things that's important is not to include google's lawyers bias against the GPL license. i always wondered where the bias against the GPL came from, within google, and learned of the existence of the in-house legal team. it turns out that they have been advising google employees for some considerable time, "avoid the GPL, avoid the GPL".

unfortunately, as legal advice, those google employees (right the way to management) do not have the backbone to say, "err no actually, GPL-licensed code is the critically strategically important leveller that forces aberrant companies to collaborate rather than sponge off of underfunded projects".