GPL and closed source

[David Woolley]

David Woolley wrote:

> No. If you really want to do this, the accepted way is to create two 
> programs that communicate by a documented message passing protocol (TCP 
> or pipes are typically used, and command line options can be part of the 
> calling interface.)

Note this technique would breach the licence agreement for most of the 
closed source commercial libraries I've come across, because they 
generally have a clause forbidding the creation of programs to expose 
the actual capabilities of the library, rather than simply to use it to 
perform some application of its capabilities.

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David Woolley
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