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! To link against [GPL]d code without [GPL]ing my program, I'll just split it in two, a [GPL]d [Library] and a program that uses that [Library]...
By dynamically linking to [GPL]d code, you are creating a derived work. The [GPL] does not allow you to distribute your derivative program together with the [GPL]d work.
-; From section 2 of the [GPL] : "If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this [
License]
, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this [
License]
, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
+; From section 2 of the [GPL] : "If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
This is why users have to download nVidia's ClosedSource BinaryDriver for [Linux] separately: since its source is not provided, it may not be redistributed as part of the [Linux] [Kernel], whose license states that any modifications must be made available in SourceCode.
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