[ros-kernel] Possible licensing issues?

[KJK::Hyperion <no...@li...>]

A friend of mine has expressed a doubt about our choice of GPL as license. 
He says that there may be issues about running non-GPL stuff on system 
libraries that are entirely GPL. I somehow thought that GPL applied only to 
*interfacing* to a library, so only programs and drivers using 
ReactOS-specific functions or the implementation itself would fall under 
the "derivative works" category, but he told me that it isn't so, and 
suggested we ask the FSF for a definitive reply

(personally, I think that the GPL is hysterical and I won't touch it with a 
ten foot pole if I can choose to, and that this particular case is crazy, 
since basically every single part of ReactOS, down to the kernel, is some 
sort of DLL)

I'm surprised that this issue hasn't been addressed before, but maybe I 
don't remember, or I wasn't subscribed yet to the mailing lists. Comments?