Even with Zed's changes to the text, I'm completely baffled by what he says about some people allegedly thinking that "Python delinks". First he links to some

Even with Zed's changes to the text, I'm completely baffled by what he says about some people allegedly thinking that "Python delinks". First he links to some blog post where someone threw out 20 questions about the GPL, and got approximately a million comments. I read about half way through the comments before losing the will to live, and didn't see anyone claiming anything like "Python delinks". (I also searched for the bizarre word "delink"; it isn't there.) Then he links to Van Lindberg's lightning talk, where he does not by any possible stretch of the imagination say or imply or suggest or support anything even slightly like "Python delinks". He hardly gets as far as mentioning Python in his five minutes. I have no idea how anyone's belief that "Python delinks", whatever the hell that's supposed to mean, could be "reinforced" by anything he said. I also asked Google about <<<python delink>>> and it didn't turn up anything remotely like what Zed appears to be talking about. It's hard to be sure, though, because Zed never actually says what this weird belief is that he's commenting on. "Python delinks", "the GPL doesn't apply to Python" -- I'm pretty sure no one with a brain has said either of those crazy things, so what is this belief that he's caricaturing and disagreeing with? Zed never says. (He does go on to make a positive claim about what the GPL allegedly means for Python software, namely that if you write something that can optionally use something GPLed to provide an extra feature it wouldn't otherwise have, then you have to release it under the GPL. I think that's debatable, but in any case disagreeing with it is not at all the same thing as saying that "the GPL doesn't apply to Python" or that "Python delinks".)