Luis Villa wrote at 18:13 (EDT) on Thursday:
No, the first time I heard someone complain about it was at Red Hat.
Citation? I assume you mean Fontana complained about it, since he's the
GPL expert at Red hat?
The second through nth times it was people on my GPL committee,
which
was most distinctly not the big firm committee.
I was on that committee. Note that it included Larry Rosen, who, while
not at a big firm, is one of the people who has generally looked for ways
to get around copyleft.
Allison Randal on that committee had complaints regarding seeking
simplicity, which are similar to Fontana's arguments. Also, as you'll
recall, I argued with her (IMO successfully) to point out that GPLv3
needed to be more verbose so that people could understand better copyleft
policies.
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