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by jeremyjh 493 days ago
GPL can contaminate you when shared as a dynamic library under certain circumstances. But that doesn't matter, since there are few mainstream libraries in these communities licensed as GPL. Nearly all of it is MIT or Apache.
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There is no such thing as contamination.

GPL code doesn't change the license of your code. It only prevents you from using GPL code from your code.

This is a distinction without a difference. If I must use it, I’d have to GPL my code.