Nothing you said even addresses my point. The entire pile of blathering nonsense about mongrel and RoR has literally nothing to do with licensing. The article

Nothing you said even addresses my point. The entire pile of blathering nonsense about mongrel and RoR has literally nothing to do with licensing. The article is about why he uses the GPL now. He uses mongrel as an example, despite the fact that nothing he says about mongrel even tangentially relates to licensing in any way. Read the paragraphs you quoted. Which one of them is a reason to use the GPL? The answer (quite obviously) is none of them, which is my point.