powers of four

But, seriously, if your first question about a piece of GPL software is, "How can I go about gettin' around the GPL?" Then you just don't get open source at all.

Zed Shaw relicenses his project Lamson under the BSD license. I favor the GPL in my projects, but my projects tend to be much more specific and targeted at a very narrow audience, so any experience I have from that may be inapplicable to the style of projects elsewhere in the "Python Community."