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Re:French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL by _puk on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:02AM (#39589431)
Hah, yeah, an employee saying that without executive authority would be a big no.

But according to this [0], I read it as quite clearly not allowed to GPL a plugin for distribution within a non free program, even if the plugin was unmodified.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLPluginsInNF

Re:French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL by flanked-evergl on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:11AM (#39589482)
But that is contingent on whether it is one work on not, which in GNU's speculation depends on how it's linked, which is not clear how to understand this for Python, and the intimacy of the communication, which is not something which we can objectively measure. We believed it would likely be one work, the plugin’s author believed it would not be. All of this was just months of wasted energy, spending arguing about licence terms instead of coding.