On Jan 21, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Adam Skutt <ask...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jan 20, 11:51 pm, Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> >> wrote: >>> This is what some people want you to believe. Arm twisting by >>> GPL-ers when you borrow their ideas? That is really unheard of. >> >> Doesn't matter, you're still legally liable if your work is found to >> be derivative and lacking a fair use defense. It's not borrowing >> "ideas" that's problematic, it's proving that's all you did. For >> those of us with legal departments, we have no choice: if they don't >> believe we can prove our case, we're not using the code, period. The >> risk simply isn't worth it. > > Many legal departments have an overblown sense of risk, I'm afraid.
I carefully avoid GPLed code on our BSD-licensed project not because I need fear anyone's legal department, but out of respect for the author(s) of the GPL-ed code. The way I see it, the author of GPL-ed code gives away something valuable and asks for just one thing in return: respect the license. It strikes me as very selfish to deny them the one thing they ask for. JMHO, Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
