Re: [Swig-user] Generated Code License Clarification

[Ralf M. <ral...@zm...>]

On 04/16/2013 07:09 PM, Wynkoop, Mike wrote:
>
> It seems almost clear based on the legal language on your webpage that the output of SWIG will be licensed 
> based only on the license(s) applicable to the code input into SWIG. However, our attorneys are not 
> comfortable with the language because they think it could be read to say that if SWIG code is in the output, 
> not through copying SWIG code and feeding it into SWIG, but by simply putting /only our/ code through SWIG, 
> that you could claim such output as subject to the GPL. Please assure us that is not the case so that we can 
> use SWIG for generating proprietary output.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
IMO
I see SWIG as a tool, a code generator. I never link to some kind of swig library, so its basically a compiler 
or parser.  The fact, that SWIG itself is GPL licensed, does not effect the license of the output of this 
tool. If this would be the case, than a GPL licensed editor could only be used to created GPL licenses code. 
And any GCC generated code would have to use the GPL. This cannot be the case.

Did I get it right?

regards
ralf