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by lelele 5257 days ago
> To continue the original example, if your program just runs the HTML generation program and supplies user data via a command line argument then it need not be released under a compatible license.

I wonder what would happen if you modify the GPLed command line program. Would that mean you'd be required to release such changes? I would say no.

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If it was licensed under the "normal" GPL, then no, if it was released under the AGPL then yes.