When Alan Shimel reported on the recent court decision against Westinghouse Digital in the BusyBox suit, he talked of the GPL having teeth. Think about the teeth of a saw. Very useful, but requiring ...
To use a DLL you would need the software to be licensed as LGPL. Since it is GPL you can not use it as a DLL without tainting your code. You can call an executable which is GPLd without issue.
Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications ...