To be fair, Honey could easily bypass the blocklist redistribution legal issue by downloading filter lists at runtime from the official source. Then they aren't redistributing the resources.
Update: It looks like they're also using code from uBO without attribution or authorization. That's most likely illegal.
I would be careful handing out legal advice as a non-legal expert, especially when it is about "bypassing legal issues". You might be doing someone a big disservice.
@readers: Obligatory notice: Don't base your business decision on random internet comments.
It's fine and good to disagree with/challenge wrong comments. But you don't need to do this meta commentary cautioning the mere act of commenting. If Sephr is wrong, just say that!
Ok. You are right. I think he is likely wrong, but I'm not a lawyer either. Just someone who researched this a lot for my own projects/company.
If that was true, all user-side aggregations would be considered as separate projects.
I think it might be possible to circumvent the GPL license, when the URL to the list would be user-configurable and the program also worked without the list.
Update: It looks like they're also using code from uBO without attribution or authorization. That's most likely illegal.