I can't help with the questions/debate but I do have a question of my own:

If you USE GPL'ed software libraries in your code, you do not need to
release the whole code under GPL, do you?

Am I correct that the only time you must release your code is when it
is actually a modified version of the GPL'ed code itself?

Sean


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Robert Ammerman <rammerman@verizon.net> wrote:
>  I am a company and I want to develop a really cool program that does "X". My
>  business model/planning tells me that the only way I can make money off this
>  program is to keep it closed (which, IMNSHO is _very_ often the case).
>
>  Now there very conveniently already exists GPLed code that does 90% of X, so
>  I can develop my product for Z dollars and sell each copy for (Z/100)
>  dollars. Except of course, I can't use this route because an open source
>  distribution model just won't work.
>
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