Ben Morgan wrote:
I thought it was the whole glob of the application that had to be able to be licensed under the GPL? An individual component of my application can be released under another license.
Ok, I think I know what you're getting at. Assuming that you want to use a GPL library (e.g. Sword), other individual components can be released under any GPL compatible license, provided that the overall project is GPL licensed (not GPL compatible, but GPLv2 specifically).
BibleCS & Xiphos are in this situation because they use Sword (GPL v2) and also ICU (BSD 2-clause), and the resulting front end in both cases is GPL v2.
It would be possible to write non-GPL components to a front end and incorporate them into a GPL front end, but I don't believe it would be possible to make the front end itself non-GPL because it is itself a derivative work of all libraries that it links (since you would have to use the GPL header files).
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