The GPL is scary enough even with the ways it really is viral. Just look at the torches/pitchforks any time some company violates it accidentally. People callin

The GPL is scary enough even with the ways it really is viral. Just look at the torches/pitchforks any time some company violates it accidentally. People calling for the company to "lose" its GPL license and have to stop shipping products, or have to open-source their entire portfolio. Crazy stuff. And to avoid accidents, it requires top-down scrutiny of the sort most companies aren't prepared to enforce. You don't want to hear "The intern accidentally used a 3rd party proprietary code module in our GPL software and shipped the binary, a month ago, what do we do now?"