GPL, Linux, and proprietary applications

[scottws]

If the FSF is saying that bridging SMF and Joomla is a violation of Joomla's GPL licence, how in the world are the numerous proprietary, non GPL-ed Linux applications not a violation of the GPL?

[Kindred]

at this point, it does not matter what any other GPL product does or allows.  We have reviewed the situation and the decision has been made.

[青山 素子]

If the FSF is saying that bridging SMF and Joomla is a violation of Joomla's GPL licence, how in the world are the numerous proprietary, non GPL-ed Linux applications not a violation of the GPL?

Well, you have the fact that most of the major system libraries those applications need - such as glibc and glib - are under the LGPL, which allows this. Additionally, other libraries like Qt have the option for a commercial license. That makes it an entirely different situation than our bridge.

In addition, I echo the comments of Kindred.