This has been a subject I've debated a lot, though as a disclosure, I myself am not a lawyer, so you're receiving lawyerly advice second/third hand from the lawyers previous employers have paid for this advice. As long as they're completely separate binaries and your code is not linking against their code, it's fine. If it was LGPL, linking would be fine as long as it wasn't their source in your source.
-Tod Hansmann On 4/7/2010 10:32 AM, Kimball Larsen wrote: > I've got a question about the legal use of some software licensed under the > GPL in conjunction with commercial software I'm writing. In particular, I'd > like to allow my commercial software installer to install a full copy of > GhostScript, then have my commercial software make a command-line call to the > installation of GhostScript to convert a PDF to a JPG. > > If you are to believe the Artifex website (owners of GhostScript) this is not > allowed. > > If you are to believe the GPL website, this is allowed. > > Anyone have some experience or knowledge on this topic? > > Thanks! > > - Kimball > http://www.kimballlarsen.com > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
