GPL-licensed binary plugins

[Mikhail Gusarov]

"Iain Barker" <iain at member.fsf.org> writes:

>> 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.

Yes, plugins and main program do share space, use callbacks and call
each other. So I think in this case the main program is definitely
GPL-ed (whohoo - this means that nearly everything on the device is
GPL-covered).

Thanks for information, I completely overlooked the part of GPL FAQ :)

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