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by zizee 3527 days ago
> Of course you can, but that's pretty pointless. The moment someone tries to use the wrapper the wrapped GPL library must also be present, so then the whole thing becomes GPL.

It may be pointless (I don't agree), but I wasn't writing about whether there was a point to it, but whether it could or could not be done.

> The complaint isn't that the code in the repo isn't GPL, anyway.

Where did I say that was what the complaint was? I was just responding to parents comment as I thought it was incorrect. If you read my first comment on this story it was to point this out.