Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Incorrect. If your program links to GPL code, all of it has to be GPL or
> compatible (you can make your program BSD-licensed and link it to GPL
> libraries, for example).

.... which, AIUI, means that I can combine code covered by any of the two
licenses - as long as I release the result under the GPL...

> Ubuntu has lots of GPL code. And also distributes stuff like unrar (source
> available but you can't write the compression algorithm based on it),
> povray (you know its terms; source avilable but definitely not
> GPL-compatible), nvidia driver (binary only), etc.

I bet the Ubuntu distribution qualifies as an "aggregate" in this respect, so
that's a whole different story.

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