GPL-licensed binary plugins

[Iain Barker]

"Mikhail Gusarov" wrote:

> Binary plugin is obviously GPL. Is the program which loads this plugin 
> also GPL?


There's no clear line of demarcation, it depends on the extent to which the 
two pieces of s/w interact.  i.e. do they share memory space, exchange data 
structures etc, what mechanisms are used.  Very context specific.

Details here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins