Even if that were true it is not very useful in this situation. Would you argue that infertile people should not be able to compete in IAAF events?

Valerie Aurora wrote an interesting article about the paper at lwn: http://lwn.net/Articles/270081/

http://xkcd.com/546/

See <a href="http://log.ometer.com/2008-08.html">Havoc Pennington's blog entry on this</a>

excerpt:
<quote>I would define an "embedded" language as one that doesn't come with a platform. It's small and easy to glue together with an app written in C or C++. It uses the same platform as the app. If the platform has an introspection capability like XPCOM or GObject-Introspection, then the platform can be exported to the embedded language in an automated way.</quote>

The GPL makes assurances regarding patents that the MIT license doesn't:

"Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."

So if you use it as a GPL licensed library you can't get sued by the BBC or other contributors to the code.