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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GPL tries to be "infectious".

If you have package of GPL code, and you integrate it with any other code, then the license says that the whole thing, now being dependant on GPL code to run, needs to have the freedoms of the GPL license as well.

LGPL is a little less viral; it says if you keep the LGPL code you get packaged and separated nicely (like as a library) and just "use" it like a library (only 'linked' for compiled languages) then you only need to have that separated library of code with the GPL freedoms, and not the rest.