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> If you happen to ship any GPL'd code at any point with your product, must it necessarily always follow that you should be forced to release the source to ever
by nextaccountic 5y ago
> If you happen to ship any GPL'd code at any point with your product, must it necessarily always follow that you should be forced to release the source to everything else you happened to ship along with it?
The only thing that gives you any right to ship the code is the license, and you must always comply with the terms of the license, so.. yes?
But here's the thing. GPL doesn't infect things that merely ship "along with it". For your entire software to be covered by GPL it must be a derivative work.