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A software engineer integrates an open-source library distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) into a commercial proprietary desktop application. The application statically links against the GPLv3 code. According to open-source licensing principles, what legal obligation is triggered?

The engineer must pay a mandatory royalty fee to the Free Software Foundation but may keep the application source code closed. The GPLv3 license allows proprietary linking as long as the developer includes the copyright notice in the 'About' dialog. The engineer can re-license the entire combined work under the MIT License without distributing source code. The entire combined work becomes subject to the GPLv3 'copyleft' viral requirement, obligating the distributor to provide the complete source code of the entire application under GPLv3 upon distribution.

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The entire combined work becomes subject to the GPLv3 'copyleft' viral requirement, obligating the distributor to provide the complete source code of the entire application under GPLv3 upon distribution.

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