Use of GPLed Python extension modules

[Jarek Zgoda]

Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.net> pisze:

>> If you cann't accept GPL, just don't use free software that is licensed
>> under GPL. Seems simple and reasonable.
> 
> Yes, I hate this ill-informed commentary that surfaces regularly,
> presumably commissioned by Steve Ballmer, which typically dredges up
> the scenario that "your employees somehow download GPL software and
> put it in your closed source product", then using it to claim that
> upon being busted by the FSF, that the GPL was "viral", has "infected
> your product" and was endorsed personally by Karl Marx.
> 
> What about the proper conclusion? That "your employees are thieves"?
> Or to use a less loaded term: that "your employees and consequently
> your company are intellectual property violators"?

That assumption makes the developers idiots, we call them "polmozg" -- a
half-minded man. I think that we should raise the flag in face of such
mistreatment. ;)

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