[platypus-dev] Re: License status of a platypus-generated application
- From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: platypus-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:22:40 -0800 (PST)
> Platypus itself is subject to the GPL. Many thanks for making it
> available! My question is whether a platypus-generated application is
> fully generated code and so uses the license of the main application (eg
> in the way that compiling C code using gcc does not cause the license
> terms of the gcc compiler to impact on the license of the compiled code it
> creates) or are there parts of platypus copied into the generated
> application so that it becomes a "derived work" and hence may only be
> distributed subject to the GPL.
This is an excellent question. I also would be interested in the answer
(all my couple of Platypus projects were GPL as it happens, but this would
be nice to know for projects not under that banner).
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