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That's the fault of the people making that policy, not the fault of the people licensing the code under GPL.

• andrewflnr 10y ago
  Pointing the finger somewhere different doesn't change the practical reality. The only question there is how likely a GPL ban is to actually affect you (seems small to me, to be honest, but I don't know).
  • belorn 10y ago
    If we are talking about probability, I have heard more times that a developer is working in a place which forbids all non-approved software from being installed and used on work computers. One web developer could not even install an alternate web browser to test the code that they wrote. Anything that is not a code snippet that is considered so small as to not be copyrightable was banned. Of course, their market wasn't very competitive and thus they could have such policy without much risk. In more competitive areas like games, companies like blizzard has shown to use any license that is compatible with their business model, and in some cases, directly asked developer for exceptions. In that kind of market, a ideology based policy doesn't work and would only give ground to the competition.
  • EdHominem 10y ago
    If your policy is the bug it doesn't help you if we don't point it out. And, if it does affect you, get a better job. Businesses with stupid policies should fail but there's no reason for them to take you down too.