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David Botton <david@botton.com> writes:
>> and is therefore not impacted by the GPL "virus"
>
> I am looking to confirm that in fact linking and using software with
> incompatible licenses is legal, but if that is true then perhaps more
> are "covered" for their needs as you say than I would think. I don't
> believe that statement 100% factual in most corporate environments.

Then read up about copyright law.  Copyright says nothing about
"linking" or "using".  The author of a copyrighted work has the right to
control *copy* and *distribution* of their work, nothing more and
nothing less.

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Ludovic Brenta.