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  • What the authors of the GPL want, and what they can legally enforce, are two completely different things. Loading program A and library B into memory at the same time doesn't actually make program A a derivative work of library B. Commented Jun 19, 2018 at 8:29
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    So I can write an ABI-compatible shim for any GPL'd program, give it a BSD license, and work around the GPL's restrictions? I doubt that would hold up in court. Commented Jul 19, 2018 at 15:32