Much angst (and discussion ink) is wasted in open source over whether pulling in code from one project with a different licence into another is allowable based on the compatibility of the two licences. I call this problem self defeating because it creates sequestered islands of incompatibly licensed but otherwise fully open source code that can never ever meet in combination. Everyone from the most permissive open source person to the most ardent free software one would agree this is a probl...