A few days late on the response here, but I'm going for it anyway. I was using "bit" colloquially, and my tone wasn't angry. We "choose not to participate in t

A few days late on the response here, but I'm going for it anyway. I was using "bit" colloquially, and my tone wasn't angry. We "choose not to participate in the GPL community" because we sell software, and if that software could be requested for free, we couldn't exactly stay in business trying to sell it. I have nothing against the GPL, and I'm pretty certain the management and rest of engineering don't either. In fact, I/we aren't trying to abuse and profit form other people's good will. That's why we check the licenses of software/libraries we use: to respect the way in which it was licensed. We have to keep our software closed source, so we obey the licenses that could require us to make it open source.