I think my example holds because it would be possible to replace either part of the process without the other one failing. That would be the argument by depende

I think my example holds because it would be possible to replace either part of the process without the other one failing. That would be the argument by dependency. Wikipedia has a pretty good section on the more broad legal background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Communicating_and_bundling_with_non-GPL_programs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Comm...