>but calling the APIs would definitely not. Why does LGPL exist then ? You're saying you can dynamically link to GPL content from say a scripting language and

>but calling the APIs would definitely not. Why does LGPL exist then ? You're saying you can dynamically link to GPL content from say a scripting language and distribute the GPL stuff separately and you would not be affected by GPL. This is not how I've seen people interpret GPL and is clearly against the spirit of the license. LGPL is meant to cover that use case explicitly.