Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   When he originally wrote "scripts", I was archaically thinking just
   of shell scripts.  Programming in Perl, Python, and Ruby is much
   more like C programming, and the things you do by linking with
   libraries in C are done with "use", "require", and "import" in
   these languages.  These are comparable to dynamic linking in
   compiled languages, so it would make sense to treat them
   equivalently for purposes of license application.

Shell script has a similar construct, `source' or the short hand `.'.