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There's no need for uninformed speculation, their actual GPL policy is available on the same site as the submission: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/thirdparty...

Can you give a couple of examples of this "campaign to dissuade OSS developers from using GPL"? It should be pretty easy since it was so very public.

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You might be right that the active dissuasion was principally about the AGPL. However, less active dissuasion of the GPL is definitely Google policy. To wit, the Google link you point to says w.r.t. "restricted" licenses, which it defines as including all the GPL licenses, "Third-party software made available under one of these licenses must not be part of Google products that are delivered to outside customers."

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