To reword: basically, you're right in that if you own the code, you can license it under GPL with an exception to allow linking to anything you want. If you don

To reword: basically, you're right in that if you own the code, you can license it under GPL with an exception to allow linking to anything you want. If you don't add necessary exceptions and distribute binaries, you've provided an invalid license to code you don't own, and those binaries aren't lawfully redistributable. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLib... (Would have edited my post to this, but the noprocast timeout got me)