Well it's good that I never said you were then. What you did was try to break out a cheap rhetorical trick to try to paint anyone who expresses a concern about

Well it's good that I never said you were then. What you did was try to break out a cheap rhetorical trick to try to paint anyone who expresses a concern about copyleft, knowing you could always back out with "well, I never said that..." And of course in your most recent comment you did it once again, sneaking in a back-door assumption that people who would have a problem with copyleft are "fucking terrible human beings". You should stop doing that. Because you aren't "a fucking terrible human being", right? Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure I've had this exact debate on HN before, but: We went any number of rounds of this with Django a while back, precisely because there's such a large gray area. I still don't honestly know whether someone could claim we've accidentally triggered the GPL by providing a database backend module in Django that can talk to GPL'd MySQL drivers. We've just navigated as carefully as we can, there. And no, it is not some sort of simple, settled, well-understood thing, so maybe you could stop presenting it as if it is? That'd be great.