Question about licensing

I'm sure you all get asked this a lot, so please forgive me but this is my first step into the open software world. I'm curious about using GPL'ed software in a supporting role for non-GLP software. Let's say YoyoDyne takes the Debian installer verbatum and uses it to install the next ve

Re: Question about licensing

Lots of excellent info, thanks everyone. So far the basic answer appears to be "no one knows, because the definition of derived is too vague". I'm still a little curious about it though. I assume that writing a shell script that calls GPL'ed code is OK, right? Even if that shell scr