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It's complicated and I'm not a lawyer so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Trident and TrueOS both had GPL and gpl3 components. Yet they were distributed as BSD operating systems with primarily BSD licenses.

From my understanding you can bundle the desktop pieces together but you would need to specifically include GPL V3 license notices for the parts of it that are GPL3.

Personally I just avoid it by not bundling crap like that there's almost always a alternative of some kind.

Thanks for the info. Bundling it and including the license notices is reasonable so I'll do that until I have a reason not to. I also sent an email to the FSF for clarifications about linking against GPL'd libraries.

This is a small hobbyist project and I'm releasing all the source code anyways. Following licensing on a best effort basis is good enough IMO.