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by red_admiral 1003 days ago
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.
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teddyh 1003 days ago
Company lawyers being weird and wrong about GPL, film at 11. The GPL paranoia strikes deep.
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cies 1003 days ago
AGPL though is avoided by the plague by corp lawyers, and for good reasons. Hence I like it for some projects.
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teddyh 1003 days ago
No, not for very good reasons.
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type0 1002 days ago
> anything GPL in the application layer was a no-no (Linux as OS was fine though).

well, just proves how hypocritical it is

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