I was composing an answer to Can I distribute a GPL executable (not a library) in a closed-source application? when I discovered it has been closed as a duplicate of Can I use GPL, LGPL, MPL licensed packages with my application and make it closed source? .
Since my answer 1)covers the original matter much more substantially than any answer in either question, and 2)couldn't be adapted for the overriding one, I posted it as https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/289924/108337 for the time being, mutual-linked it with the initial question with comments and tried to have that question reopened on these grounds. This didn't work (with no feedback to guess why).
So, I have two questions:
What to do with the answer?
- Adapt it for the for the much more general overriding question?
- This will make it a few (if not several) pages long: the general question asks for many licenses at once and implies all similar ones as well, it will take a lot of text to cover them all in the same level of detail
- Moreover, since more licenses are implied, the scope to cover is unclear and potentially unlimited
- Reopen the initial question and move it there?
- Something else?
- Adapt it for the for the much more general overriding question?
Is the overriding question's scope appropriate?
- It can be (and is) answered in the "more or less educated guess" way, but
- Cannot be practically given an answer based on facts rather than opinions
