Re^3: The ActiveState Platform and Perl 5.32

[stevieb]

Thing is, if my understanding of GPL is correct (and it may not be as I use the Artistic license), if a GPL project is included in another project, everything must be Open Source. I don't believe you can compile and send over the bits of a GPL project without having the encompassing project being GPL as well.

At least that's how I understand the GPL in my limited knowledge.

Might be worth having your legal team look into this.

[chromatic]

That's not how copyleft works. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to compile GPL code with MSVC and distribute the binaries without making MSVC GPL as well.

[autarch]

I think you're conflating two meanings of the word "include" here. If you make a collection of software that includes some GPL and some non-GPL software, each individual piece retains its original license. The collection as a whole may have a license as well.

If, however, you take some GPL code and copy it into your program, or if you link/import GPL code, your program becomes GPL. But simply bundling some GPL code (compiled or not) with other code does not affect that other code's license.