[License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

[Gervase Markham]

On 11/06/15 11:44, Cinly Ooi wrote:
> If you choose GPLv3, then anyone down stream are required to use GPLv3.
> That's the requirement of the license.
> 
> However, in general, using open source does not mean your program will
> have to be open source. 

"That depends on what the program does", as the GPL puts it. If part of
the output of the program (the app) contains bits of the program, as
seems to be the case here from the description, then yes, the output is
also GPLv3.

Gerv