<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:27 PM Kyle Mitchell <<a href="mailto:kyle@kemitchell.com">kyle@kemitchell.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br>> If I build a dental records management application<br>> with a GPLv2 file format parser, wouldn't my application be<br>> "other software"? But that can't be right. We must be<br>> making a mistake elsewhere.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My understanding is that that is *exactly* right. Put a</div><div dir="ltr">GPL component into your application, you need to GPL</div><div dir="ltr">your application or refrain from distributing it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>
</div><div dir="ltr">-- </div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a></div><div dir="ltr">Fundamental thinking is ha-ard. Let's go ideology-shopping.</div><div dir="ltr"> --Philosopher Barbie</div></div></div></div></div>