It's a pretty big change, so yes, some impact is unavoidable. But the GPL could still operate on the margin of free vs. mandatory fees. If the company doesn't w

It's a pretty big change, so yes, some impact is unavoidable. But the GPL could still operate on the margin of free vs. mandatory fees. If the company doesn't want to go through the headache of paying each open source project it uses some fraction of the profit it makes by using it (and the necessary accounting to figure out what that profit is) then it'd still have to abide by the license.