Re: [development] Modules that integrate non-GPL PHP apps violate the GPL.

On 9/7/07, Thomas Barregren <thomas@webbredaktoren.se> wrote:

But if your program and the other program are linked, even if it is done only at runtime, and make function calls to each other and share data structures, your module is a derivative work of the other program as well.

If this is true and legally correct (and I understand it), then we are lucky the FSF doesn't have the money to sue thousands of cases in court. Because every time a GPL program is compiled and run on a non-GPL operating system, it's going to be breaking this "rule." No GPL software could be run on Mac OS or Windows, if it called the OS or any GUI API. Such is the spiral of insanity that this provision of the GPL causes.