[Gllug] Hypothetical GPL question

[Paul Brazier]

> -----Original Message-----
> What the GPL discusses is the 'preferred form for making modifications
> to the work'. For a C program, that's the C source not run through an
> obfuscation process. For an assembler program, that's the assembler
> source. If you do write in machine code, that's the _only_ form for
> making modifications.

That's interesting, presumably it means "preferred by the people who
started the project".
So say you use SSADM or something similar to aid your software creation
process, does this mean you have to release all this under the GPL?
What about if you use Glade or something to design your GUI. Do the
Glade project files have to be distributed or just the C it generates?
What about if you use some sort of complex pre-compiler that *isn't* GPL
and that only you have? You could release the source code but it
wouldn't be much use because no-one else could use it.


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