On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouchin@gmail.com> wrote:

Back on topic.

To my understanding, if I should port anything GPL licensed that I needed from some language to a C library and licensed it GPL. Then I called my new GPL C library via UFFI. I should have no problems at all. Is that a correct understanding by all?

Have you read the GPL's FAQ?

There's a whole section dedicated to combination of works (Combining work with code released under the GPL).

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#TOCMereAggregation.

But of course this is written by FSF, and for them GPL is not just a legal matter, but an ethical one (and from their perspective GPL being a virus infecting other code is a good comparison, because they really want to take over).

Peter