[Lazarus] GPL'ed projects and closed-sourced tools

[Funky Beast]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got told in the CodeGear newsgroups that if you create a GPL'ed
> project, the tools used to create that project must also be GPL'ed
> otherwise somebody might require a commercial compiler to compile the
> GPL'ed project.
> 

Well...lets see uhmm...., there are mega-tons of GPL'ed Delphi
projects on SourceForge, and Delphi is not a GPL'ed tool.
There are also tons of GPL'ed VS projects on SourceForge, and
VS is most definitely not a GPL'ed tool.

puzzled,
Funky Beast