I would argue that yes, you're not working around the GPL by going through a pipe. Your program still doesn't work if the remote process gets killed, so it's de

I would argue that yes, you're not working around the GPL by going through a pipe. Your program still doesn't work if the remote process gets killed, so it's dependent on it. > b) much of the Linux ecosystem is out of compliance with the GPL because it attempts to use pipe() to circumvent the GPL and this approach doesn't actually work. What do you have in mind in particular?