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

[Cinly Ooi]

Dear Gerv

You are right. I did assume the output of the program Rapid is code for the
app and the output code is GPL-ed. Sorry for not making it clear.


Best Regards,
Cinly

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On 11 June 2015 at 13:01, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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