Thanks - that's the conclusion I came to as well.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merrill Cornish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:15 PM
> To: Craig Andera; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nant-users] GPL and build scripts
> 
> Craig,
> 
> I'm pretty sure that "link" means _link_.  If you go to the 
> FSF site, in their explanation of the GPL (at least at one 
> time), they gave the example of the GPL'ed Bash application 
> being used to call proprietary programs (which is much like 
> NAnt calling external programs).  Since the Bash code was not 
> modified and it's only "link" to the other programs is a 
> system exec() call, the GPL requirements did NOT cross from 
> Bash to the external programs.
> 
> Merrill
> 




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