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  • Does the closed-source application depend on the GPL application in any way to fulfill its requirements? Or is the dependency only the other way around? Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 9:40
  • It's hard to say how deep dependency is. Closed-source application is able to work without open-source so as open-source can work alone, but functionality of closed-source application could be described as "service provider", so it's useless without some client application, which is our open-source in our case (sorry for abstract terms) Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 9:51
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    Related: Calling GPL'd programs from a shell script Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 11:30
  • Is the IPC interface already present in the GPL'ed program, or do you plan to add this on to the GPL program (and of course make these changes available per the GPL)? Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 11:30
  • Sure, it will require some changes in GPL application sources, and the client side code will be available as GPL requires, it would look like some advanced SQL query interface to the service. However, service side should stay closed Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 12:05