Hi Kris,
NAntContrib (and actually NAnt if you read the fine print) are licensed
under the LGPL. I also found the following in the GPL/ LGPL FAQ, which
I am not sure helps or not:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
Which (I think) says that if the component/ library is part of the
operating system and distributed as such you are free to use it in your
program without changing it's license. I am not sure if the
SharePoint.dll is distributed as part of Windows 2003, I believe it is
but am not 100% sure. Also I could not find what license the
SharePoint.dll was under, which is the limiting factor I was first
concerned with (based on reading the shared source license agreement).
There are mailing lists on the open source .org site that might be able
to answer the question as well:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
Cheers,
Clayton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Syverstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: April 18, 2004 7:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [NAntC-Dev] FW: NAntContrib won't build
>
>
>
> Hi Clayton,
>
> Your email did raise some FUD with me, and rightly so. Until
> then I hadn't thought about any license implications with
> linking to the SharePoint.dll from my NAnt tasks. After
> further review, I don't think this will be appropriate given
> the GPL. I'm going to investigate using late binding for my
> tasks and try and avoid a compilation dependency on the
> SharePoint assembly.
>
> Have you had any experience with this type of licensing issue
> before? What is the typical approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Kris
>
>
>
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