[LAD] GPL and plugins

[Victor Lazzarini]

I think this is the closest to the scenario I am envisaging. There is  
a host, which is non-Free and commercial, currently using a non-Free  
plugin, which is packaged with it. This non-Free plugin gets  
substituted by a Free plugin, which is free because, amongst other  
things, it links to a GPL dynamic library. Is this breaking the  
original GPL license of the dynamic lib the plugin links to?
I see for instance that in the case of LinuxSampler, this would  
clearly be a breach of license, because of the extra condition  
attached relating to commercial software. But what about plain GPL?

Victor

On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:34, Paul Davis wrote:

> But I think that in the direction that you asked it then I think its a
> little more restrictive, with the same proviso that Chris offered: you
> as a user of a GPL'ed plugin can do whatever you want with it,
> including load it into a non-GPL host. However, I don't believe that
> the developers and/or distributors of the host can arrange for this
> happen in any "automatic" way, and would even be skirting a thin line
> by packaging their host with GPL'd plugins that would be discovered
> automatically.