Bernard Devlin wrote (see his whole message at the end of this email):
You're either extremely knowledgeable about the GPL, or I think you
have misunderstood the GPL.
The first is certainly not true, so the second is more than likely. I got my
(hopefully wrong!) information from the site of
FYI:
The work around that I have seen used is to keep your code and the GPL code
completely separate. In fact, when someone downloads and installs your code,
the very first thing your code would do is ask people to approve the install of
the GPL code. Then if they say yes, download the binary
My pleasure. I'm sure that there are plenty of discussions on the
internet that will help you further understand what is possible and
where the limitations are. It seems a shame to throw away a possible
solution to a problem on a misunderstanding of the possibilities. My
thoughts on the matter