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GPL violation in Tomba! Special Edition?

13 pointsby weird_trousers26 days ago

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mubou26 days ago
It&#x27;s important to point out that the concept of &quot;linking&quot; is not mentioned in the GPL&#x27;s definition of &quot;Program&quot; or &quot;covered work&quot;, nor is it used as a determiner to decide if the viral nature applies to your work or not. That&#x27;s a common misconception that people who&#x27;ve read about GPL but never read the actual license text have. I point that out here only because the developer here mentioned it, but it&#x27;s irrelevant.<p>The viral nature applies if you &quot;convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program&quot; unless it is &quot;a compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program&quot; [0].<p>If that sounds vague enough to be interpreted in a lot of different ways to you, you&#x27;re right. Even the FSF themselves admit it would be up to a court to decide[1] (which unfortunately in a lot of cases means whoever has the most money wins).<p><i>tl;dr - When in doubt, assume you need to make your work GPL too.</i><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;gpl-3.0.en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;gpl-3.0.en.html</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation</a>