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by camgunz 667 days ago
> Aren't they? So, if I want to use a GPL library, all I need to do is write a little wrapper program that does RPC over a socket, and boom, I can use a GPL library in my closed source program?

Yep. This is how MySQL/MariaDB work, for example.
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pimeys 667 days ago
What about when running a wasm component in an AGPL host? Can the compiled wasm file be proprietary? They share the same memory space, but the wasm component is not compiled with the host.
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camgunz 666 days ago
Interesting; this sounds to me like linking, but I'd email licensing@fsf.org to be sure.
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