Re:Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,00...
by ghaff on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:26PM
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No real disagreement.
Some combination of the license (and existence of the LGPL), other things the FSF has written, practice, and history suggest that somewhere between statically linking your program together with GPL programs and shipping your program on a disk alongside unrelated GPL programs, you go from having to comply with the GPL and not having to comply with the GPL (for your own code).
However, much of the space between those two points is a matter of conjecture, legal theory, and opinion.
Some combination of the license (and existence of the LGPL), other things the FSF has written, practice, and history suggest that somewhere between statically linking your program together with GPL programs and shipping your program on a disk alongside unrelated GPL programs, you go from having to comply with the GPL and not having to comply with the GPL (for your own code).
However, much of the space between those two points is a matter of conjecture, legal theory, and opinion.