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Hi,

 can someone please enlighten me regarding the GPL and Sharpen?

Is Sharpen deemed a compiler and/or needs the generated source code be put under GPL or can Sharpen be used as a tool to generate source code that may then used with any license? Are we still free to choose any license we want for the generated source code?

I hope so - otherwise (if the generated source would need to GPL) this tool would be useless for me (and for many others too, I guess).

thank you - regards - Sebastian

yGuy:

can Sharpen be used as a tool to generate source code that may then used with any license? Are we still free to choose any license we want for the generated source code?

 Yes.

In the default namespace example i found: '-namespaceMapping java Sharpen'

I'm assuming this 'Sharpen' package is GPL and should be replaced by self-written code when you don't want your project to GPL ?

Friso escreveu:
> In the default namespace example i found: '-namespaceMapping java Sharpen'
>
> I'm assuming this 'Sharpen' package is GPL and should be replaced by
> self-written code when you don't want your project to GPL ?
>

That's correct.