24 Jan
2017
24 Jan
'17
6:05 p.m.
On 25/01/17 2:44 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I note that a company I worked for refused to have any GPL software on their machines, even GCC, due to legal advice. That was a couple of revisions of the GPL ago, but some scars last.
By "some scars last", do you mean "I'll stay away from that company"?
No, of course not. The key point was that we were a small company and would not have survived a law suit, win or lose. That company no longer exists, in any case. The venture capitalists whose lawyers' advice we followed do exist, but I no longer work for a startup.