I'm not really aware of legal terminology. Therefore, I have a naive question
concerning GPL:
we plan to publish the source code of a software under GPL. This software (named
MidiShare) is a kind of micro-kernel dedicated to musical applications. It should be
considered as an extension of the host operating system. Client applications are using
this kernel like any application uses an operating system services: they don't include
any code, compiling such an application just uses the MidiShare interface file. My
question is: should a MidiShare client application be considered as a derived work (as
defined by the GPL), or in other terms, is it possible to build a proprietary
application which uses the MidiShare GPL kernel. My feeling is that it should be
possible (proprietary applications exist on top of Linux) but I want to make sure of
it before publishing the source code.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dominique Fober
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