Re: Question about licensing

[Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM>]

  Lots of excellent info, thanks everyone.

  So far the basic answer appears to be "no one knows, because the  
definition of derived is too vague".

  I'm still a little curious about it though.  I assume that writing  
a shell script that calls GPL'ed code is OK, right?  Even if that  
shell script is not made public?  I can see no difference between a  
GUI shell and a shell script in this specific regard.

  If I may redirect it a bit, is it up to the author of the tool in  
question?  I'm specifically curious about dpkg, if I have written  
concent from the authors in question to build a GUI shell is that OK  
regardless of the vagrity of the license in this regard?  And who  
_are_ the authors in the case of GPL'ed code?

Maury