[argyllcms] Re: ArgyllCMS as smart CMM for OS X

Graeme Gill wrote:

If what you distribute includes Argyll components,
and the package depends for it's purpose on those components
Of course it does. Icclink does the hard work; my CMM just picks the result and passes it to the ColorSync framework. 


[...] then your package needs to comply with
the GNU licensing conditions, which (in summary) mean that
everything you distribute in that package need to be made
available under a compatible Free Software license (But please
read the license and obtain legal advice etc. etc. )
I know: YANAL, IANAL, but do you think it's possible to distribute my CMM (which is linked with proprietary OS APIs) under GPL?
I think this case is covered by the GPL FAQ <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs>, but I'm not quite sure if I understood it well enough: The libraries my CMM needs are distributed with the OS, my source code does not contain them, but even if the executable does, my package is still GPL compatible? Did I get this right? 

TIA,
Klaus

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