Volkers answer to the part of Nicks question about output from this code not 
being required to be licenced under the GPL. seems correct.

Go to;

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:24, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> It seems to me that people fail to distinguish between a public
> performance of the output of some software (colourful lights at the
> intersection) and the software itself. That's the point of the software
> - produce output. There's no link between the rights to the software and
> the rights to its output, although some authors try hard to establish
> one. Their prerogative. As soon as you blur that distinction with
> something like gimp, it'll be deader than a dodo.
>

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