for that very reason I won't touch any GPL'd code at any time. There is none on my system, I won't even look at any in an editor or print.
By linking to the library at runtime you're using it, which forces you to release your own code under GPL.
It is maybe unlikely claims like that would hold up in a court of law (but as we all know courts are not to be relied upon to act logically, many are ignorant of reality and especially jury trials are decided mostly by what the jurors perceive to be in their own personal interest rather than the law), but by the time you got that far you'd be out of a ton of money and be branded as a bad guy all over the internet.
So just avoid anything to do with the GPL. Use alternatives everywhere, if you do stumble upon GPL'd code or libraries by accident (it happens, not every file is recognisable as such before you open it and take a look) delete every trace of it immediately.
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