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The GCIDE is a GPL v3'd English dictionary.
If I was to release it bundled with a closed-source application, would loading that data count as "linked source code", and therefore be a violation of the GPL? Lots of the GPL discussions I've found assume that the GPL library is code, not data, and I'm not sure if it makes a difference.
What about if I modified the GCIDE, release the changes, and then continue to use it in a closed-source program? Is that a violation?
You are asking for a legal opinion, for that you need to pay a lawyer, and I am not one. However, as a long-term friend of RMS and many of the FSF folks, what you are proposing is exactly what they intend the GPL to prevent. So, doing that is certainly a violation of the intent of the license. If you do find a lawyer who is willing to argue that it is legal, I'm sure the FSF lawyer would like to hear the argument, so he can produce GPLv4 to deal with it. :-)
