GPL FAQ 3875
Sine Nomine
No. Not if you use the GNU interpretation, which for now is the only one that matters unless you want to fight them in court. The library and the program are considered the same. The library must give you the right to republish under GPL with no restrictions more than that license. Why do you think there were all those arguments about QT saying that KDE was not under the GPL in a valid manner? The library you have described is incompatible with the GPL.
Not if it is the same program. There is a statement in the GPL saying mere inclusion of a piece of work in a collection is not considered to be integrated, but once you integrate the two pieces the result must place no restrictions greater than the GPL...your described function does.
It is completely the opposite of what is being said by myself and others, in the referenced message or elsewhere. Then it is completely nuts. We are all saying that linking GPL with...
If this is your program you can do what you want by using a BSD like license that doesn't have compatibility issues. The GPL simply will not do in this case unless you want to rewrite the function. You can't use his code if he wants such restrictions on it.
You do not say if the GPL work is all your own or if you use other people's code as well. If it is all your...
You could make it a seperate program and call it through system or execv. I don't really understand how GNU can make the distinction but that is considered to be seperate unintegrated components. What would happen if you used dlopen instead? Not sure...you haven't linked the components...that is where a grey area lies.
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