HP-lead effort to study the management of Free/Open Source Software in the enterprise, to develop tools to track code licensces and manage risks, to stimulate community involvement and development.
you are able to avoid GPL obligations by creating a combined work of logically separable works that are distributed separately. E.g. distribute your new files under your license choice, and ask the client to download the GPL parts from an Internet source
In copyright law terms, one must create "an original work of authorship." An author must consciously recast, transform, or adapt the GPL-licensed software (all of which are forms of "modification") before the GPL applies to the new software.
you are able to avoid GPL obligations by creating a combined work of logically separable works that are distributed separately. E.g. distribute your new files under your license choice, and ask the client to download the GPL parts from an Internet source