Re:It happends... (Score 1)

Then you should be aware that many options you are given in society carry an implied threat. For example, if your landlords asks for your rent which is overdue, the implied threat is that if you do not give it to him soon, he will throw you out, but he doesn't necessarily have to yell and shout at you about it and make you feel like crap to get his point across. If your boss asks you to have a report to him by Thursday morning at 9 AM so he can present it to the CEO then the implied threat is that if you don't have it to him then he may have you fired (although hopefully not if you are a good employee). Both of these examples show perfectly reasonable requests which might be made of you in your life, neither of which have to be presented in an unpleasant way, while giving you no choice in your response to them. In fact, your landlord and your boss could ask for things in this way, and you could continue to have an excellent relationship with them, despite the fact that refusal to pay or produce would result in very unpleasant things for you. In the same way, I think that saying that a person who writes GPL'd code is threatening someone every time they ask them to respect the license they have written the code under is hyperbole. While the threat of litigation obviously exists if they do not comply, and therefore compliance is not an option, there is no reason that it cannot, and is not resolved in a pleasant manner most of the time, with threats firmly left out of it (except as they are implied, at least at first).