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[Christopher Chan]

> I also understand that any software developed using GPLed development
> tools (gcc, Perl, etc.) cannot be licensed under anything else but the
> GPL because that software may use libraries which are under the GPL.
>   

That is absolutely false. You can license software compiled with gcc 
under whatever license you like. The real question is whether you are 
including other people's code that are licensed under GPL. The GNU C 
Library is LGPL so compiling a program that only uses system calls and 
standard c library calls does not have to be licensed under GPL.

If, however, you wrote a program that used the qt library prior to 
version 4.5, then you would have had to release it under GPL because qt 
is GPL.

The same goes for interpreted languages such as php, perl, etc.

> Thus, it is not legal to use GPLed code in software that's under a
> restricted license.
>   
Please use the correct words. You can USE GPL'ed code anyway you like. 
You cannnot DISTRIBUTE GPL'ed code under a different license. Please get 
that very clear.