A GUI wrapper around a GPL CLI application, is it a derivative? [closed]
问题 Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 4 years ago . If I develop a GUI wrapper that only executes a GPL cli application (for the sake of argument, say tar) must I release the GUI wrapper as GPL? Is it a derivitive work? If it is a derivative work what must I release? Both the GPL application and the wrapper will be distributed together 回答1: IANAL. Quoting the