GPL Clarification

[Noah Roberts]

Renaud Deraison wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:52:39PM -0800, M J wrote:
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>Hi,
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>>Based on what I have read in GPLv2, I'm coming to the
>>conclusion ANYTHING written in NASL should be GPL.
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>This is correct. However, as the copyright holder of NASL, Tenable
>can grant itself an exception in that regard. 
>
Why would code written in nasl have to be gpled?  I think it is pretty 
commonly accepted that interpreting code with a GPLed interpreter 
doesn't make the code GPLed.  I must be missing something

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