Possibly OT: Splitting Hairs Over GPL?

[Tod Hansmann]

This has been a subject I've debated a lot, though as a disclosure, I 
myself am not a lawyer, so you're receiving lawyerly advice second/third 
hand from the lawyers previous employers have paid for this advice.  As 
long as they're completely separate binaries and your code is not 
linking against their code, it's fine.  If it was LGPL, linking would be 
fine as long as it wasn't their source in your source.

-Tod Hansmann

On 4/7/2010 10:32 AM, Kimball Larsen wrote:
> I've got a question about the legal use of some software licensed under the GPL in conjunction with commercial software I'm writing.  In particular, I'd like to allow my commercial software installer to install a full copy of GhostScript, then have my commercial software make a command-line call to the installation of GhostScript to convert a PDF to a JPG.
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> If you are to believe the Artifex website (owners of GhostScript) this is not allowed.
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> If you are to believe the GPL website, this is allowed.
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> Anyone have some experience or knowledge on this topic?
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> Thanks!
>
> - Kimball
> http://www.kimballlarsen.com
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