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POWrapping GPL Code in a Service, Kernel Driver or Other License Avoidance Mechanism
 

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    <p>Regarding the following excerpt of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/247389/please-help-me-understand-the-specifics-of-the-gpl#247428">this comment</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>AFAIK, it's fine to interact with GPL code over a network adapter. It's not normally OK (again, AFAIK) to have code that's more tightly coupled than that, particularly if your code can't function without the GPL code, but that's a gray area.</p> </blockquote> <p>So if I want to use a graphics library that's GPL (and not LGPL), could I decide to make it part of a graphics service available on a linux computer as long as I release my code that implements this service with this library?</p> <p>Say the library implements SVG, and I decide I want to do all of my screen drawing in vector graphics with SVG. Rather then rolling SVG into my several apps (and thus opening their source code), I create a service (or kernel driver even) that listens on a socket (or implements a graphics device) which takes SVG data and renders it to the screen using the library. I release the service/kernel driver code as per the library's GPL. I do not release code for any of my programs that use that service or kernel driver. I publish the API for the service/kernel driver so others can implement it, replace it, and still run my binaries with a different service/driver, or develop reflectors, etc.</p> <ul> <li>Am I violating the legal clauses of GPL</li> <li>Am I violating the spirit of the GPL</li> </ul> <p>I'm certain others have thought about this - has it occurred, and what was the community reaction?</p> <p>-Adam</p>
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