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@drewdevault@fosstodon.org this question lacks enough information to answer definitively. Yes, it is allowed, but the license of the resulting binaries is GPL and when distributing these binaries they must inform the recipient about their rights to getting the source code to the GPL component; so it is allowed but there are ways to do it wrong that violate the GPL and are not allowed