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> It's unclear under copyright law whether distributing the bundle of [code that calls GPL'd code + GPL'd code] makes the entire bundle fall under GPL [1].

My recollection was that GPLv3 made it so that if you included any GPL code, you had to opensource the entire. That freaked people out, so there was another GPL, LGPL meant mainly for libraries and other code that is linked into your code, so you won't have to release your code if you just linked against it. Of course, you'd have to release the modifications if you modified the LGPL'ed code to use it in your own.

IANAL, etc.




Yes, the LGPL explicitly says that you're allowed to link.

But the converse, that linking implies a derivative work under GPL, has never been adjudicated in a US court.




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