Re: I really don't know where to post this. GPL License question

[nicolas vigier]

On 2008-01-14, Spenceee@gmail.com <Spenceee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our application, (the client part) has a list of documents in it,
> which the users can double click.  We would like the double click to
> open a piece of software (currently a hosted adobe reader, which is
> slow, terrible and has a multitude of issues), and replace this with
> the GPL sumatra code.  Our application would "launch" the GPL code
> section, but do nothing else than use it.

I think that if you make it clear that your software and the pdf viewer
are separate programs, then there is no problem, there is no chance
that your software can be considered a derivative work of the pdf viewer. 

However if you make this GPL code live in the same process as your
software (by using dynamic libraries for instance, instead of starting
an other process with the file you want to open as an argument) this is
not so clear.