GPL - love it or leave it? Isn't the main point of the GPL that it disallows combining GPL'd and non-GPL'd licensed code, except under limited conditions - see for example http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs Intentionally, this situation can be inconvenient.