Rick Morrison wrote:
> Just how viral is GPL in a circumstance like this? I was under the 
> impression that it is perfectly OK to use a GPL library in a commercial 
> product, as long as the source to the library itself was made available, 
> along with any patches/modifications to that library.

If you use GPL libraries and you distribute your software, your software 
must also be GPL. Maybe you are thinking about LGPL which does allow 
libraries to be distributed with proprietary software. See
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

Kent


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