GPL3 Re: packaging

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:28:46AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > I may have fallen off on a curve, here, but if the issue is "does using
> > a GPLd tar utility to package our non-GPL package have any effect at
> > all on its licensing?", I'm pretty sure the answer is "no".
> 
> I'm 100% sure the answer is "no".
> 
> The GPL has to end somewhere and to take this to it's logical conclusion
> it would effectively state that writing a document in a GPL word
> processor would mean that the docs you write in it would also have to be
> GPL... or a GPL IDE to write programs that are non GPL etc.....  neither
> of which is the case (unless I've *really* misinterpreted things!)

Except for Bison, for good reasons that I understand.

And yeah, I knew it was no, I was just trying to be lyrical.  :-)

Cheers,
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