>> You just can't touch anything that's GPL if you build closed-source commercial software.
That is not true at all and this reflects basically a willful ignorance of what the GPL actually says.
>> That's kind of my job, and I have to be pragmatic and practical about it.
Then you are bad at your job, because you do not know what the GPL means in practice.
How can it be that most of the most valuable technology companies in the world--Google, Facebook, Amazon, just to name a few--are built from the core-up on open source software?
That is not true at all and this reflects basically a willful ignorance of what the GPL actually says.
>> That's kind of my job, and I have to be pragmatic and practical about it.
Then you are bad at your job, because you do not know what the GPL means in practice.
How can it be that most of the most valuable technology companies in the world--Google, Facebook, Amazon, just to name a few--are built from the core-up on open source software?