You can only use the linking exception if you wrote all the other code yourself.
If your program began life as someone else's GPL stuff, or you use GPL libraries, then you cannot use the linking exception because it is not all your code -- the other people have not given their permission to have a linking exception on their code.
You can only use the linking exception if you wrote all the other code yourself.
If your program began life as someone else's GPL stuff, or you use GPL libraries, then you cannot use the linking exception because it is not all your code -- the other people have not given their permission to have a linking exception on their code.
Your submission, as a whole, won't be "under the GPL 3.0 license" if it uses an incompatible library. It won't even be legally re-distributable.
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