Jeffro this post is biased and uninformed. You have written excellent stuff in the past but this is a new low. It should never have been posted in the first place.
Not on WPTavern anyway. The Tavern is too good for this. You have tainted your baby Jeff :(.

It’s evident by this tweet that he simply doesn’t ‘get it‘ and most likely never will because ego or something else blinds the man from reality.
Do you get it Jeff? Do you understand the difference between actually using GPL code and calling functions? If not read Chips excellent post on the subject. Heck you can do a comparison post between those for the GPL inheritance and Chips. I would venture to say that Chips will kick the other ones butts.

What I don’t like is the simple fact that it’s just not right, to create a piece of work that ties into a free and open platform with millions of users and it’s licensed in a way that takes away the very freedoms users of that software have been granted thanks to the GPL license.
It is a perfectly fine thing to do according to the license but it is faux pas. This obsession with the "spirit" of the GPL needs to stop. It has nothing to do with the license. The GPL has nothing to do with freedom either. And if you value freedom etc you should learn about the MIT and 2,3 clause BSD licenses. There you have freedom. Real freedom.

It’s aggravating to me to think that going against the GPL within the WordPress community makes any kind of business sense at all but if you develop a decent product, have great marketing along with good support and a naive userbase who doesn’t know jack about licenses and the freedoms granted with the GPL, I guess you can get by for awhile.
Not only are you showing a lack of understanding of the subject you are basically condescending to Thesis users. Jeff you don't understand the license either are you naive and don't know jack also? And you are using a GPL theme?