Jordan, Tom wrote:
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From: Martin Aliger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 4:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Licensing
You cannot write a NAnt task that uses parts of NAnt's API and distribute that task under a license other than GPL (think of Subversion or NUnit distributing a NAnt task for example).
This issue has been addressed repeatedly by the FSF in the case of C++. As long as you are using a shared object (.so) or a dynamic link library (.dll), you are permitted to use the API under (L)GPL without effecting the license that your work is distributed under. However, static libraries (.lib) would impose the (L)GPL on your work since it is now "binarily" inseperable from the API.
Extending this to C#, you can use (L)GPL assemblies with impunity.
The only sticking point is when AbstractIL in used. Just like C++ templates where the instantiation of a templated API is compiled into the containing works and inseperable from it, an API based on AbstractIL may be dealt with in the same manner. Since we don't currently use AbstractIL, there isn't a problem.
So, yes, you can compile and distribute your own Nant tasks as an Assembly. All this without opening the code to your taks.
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