I was thinking about that possibility too, about becoming instantly in violation of the gpl the moment you decide to give away only part of your work.
Given the existence of such high profile things as ghostscript and vnc, I'm assuming the gpl allows for this in some sane manner.
I have a menuing routine that I wrote for my companies quite expensive custom software, and then I gave away that routine, and I'd be shot if it turned out that by doing so I gave away our whole application.
Rather than take that chance I made it even less than bsd style and just said "here, no stipulations".
It should be said that, if you wrote the routine in company time, then it's actually the company that own the copyright, not you, so you have no right to give it away, under any license. If this wasn't the case, then no company could create any product, as they wouldn't own the rights to it. Although, this may not apply in all countries...... (I'm in the UK)
Alasdair
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