[belorn]

Are you in a highly competitive field? If so, any code you can avoid writing is a competitive advantage, and means you can push out a product faster than everyone else. In those cases, use, buy, and ask for any code which will benefit the production and only avoid licenses which directly prevents your business model from earning revenue.

[reiz]

Everybody is an highly competitive field. Everybody wants to release as fast as possible. That's why everybody is using open source components. I know that everybody in the commercial field avoids GPL. Just curious which other licenses are on the blacklist of the some companies.

[belorn]

If I take a specific example, a AAA game like starcraft 2 uses something like 10-20 different open source projects, where the licenses are everything from personal granted permission, mit, to LGPL. I would also guess that some of those personal granted permission is actually bought permission from dual licensed GPL projects.

Not everyone are willing to go those lengths to save time and work. Not-invented-here is still going strong, as is FUD. If you are in a highly competitive field that can't afford NIH and FUD, then you can't afford a blacklist either.