How does GPL licensing affect projects that don't involve linking/compiling? | Linux Today

How does GPL licensing affect projects that don’t involve linking/compiling?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 13, 2010

[ Thanks to Edmundo
Carmona
for this link. ]

“This is a question that I’ve been trying to figure out
for a while already.

“I’m working on a php project that I will distribute (or
whatever word you want to use) under the terms of the Affero
GPLv3.

“Now I included a piece of code (PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser)
that’s not under that license (MIT kind of license, apparently) and
I started wondering how GPL code gets affected by the code I
included…”


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