Re: [Hardhats-members] GPL loophole article

[Jim Drash]

There are no "real" loopholes in GPL.  Let me run through an example.

If I as a developer work on some code and release it via GPL, and you like what I have done, then you can use it however you want.  If you use it "Internally" to you organization, you don't have to do anything special.  If you decide to incorporate my GPL-ed code in something you distribute, then the source (both mine and yours) must be included in the distribution.

If you don't like the openness that the GPL requires you can either not use my code, not distribute it, or find code that uses some other license like BSD.

I know that there are some nuances around LGPL but that is the gist of GPL.

No loopholes here.  GPL is about choice.