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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 by outsomnia on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#25348617)
As shown in the article with the excerpt from Google's policy, I think you'll find the FAANG-type policies are all similar... any GPL* requires specific approval from legal, whereas the common liberal licenses have simplified approval.

The GPL2 linux kernel may be treated as an exception and allowed, but it doesn't mean GPL2 anything else won't be treated like leprosy.

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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 by Analemma_ on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:54PM (#25349756)
IDK about all the FAANGs, but at least when I worked at Microsoft this wasn't true: GPLv2 had the same auto-approve policy as MIT/BSD licenses, whereas GPLv3 was forbidden without specific dispensation from legal.
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