IMO this issue is a red herring. Here is what the GPL FAQ has to say on the subject
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In what cases is the output of a GPL program covered by the GPL too?
Only when the program copies part of itself into the output.
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput
Pretty much any GPLed software will include string fragments that it outputs into any output file. Since any output file is capable of being interpreted by some software, if only a hex editor, any output file is "code". As such if someone were to try to claim that the output of a GPLed program is itself GPLed, *every single file* ever produced by a GPL program would then have to be GPLed. That is simply not going to happen.