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qwery on Feb 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: NESFab – A new programming language for creating N...

No. The (GPL) license doesn't "infect" the output of the (GPL) software.

colejohnson66 on Feb 13, 2025 [–]

But it does infect if some "standard library" is injected into the output. This is why glibc has a "linking exception".

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