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  • [bash here is just to exemplify, it could be any other GPL application] that means that, for ex.: as bash is GPL, any bash script (that depends 100% on bash to run), must be released as GPL? also, /bin/bash application is and will continue being a single application on itself that can run independently of myApplication, I did not modify bash to depend on myApplication to run; but.. myApplication, will only be a runnable application if bash is present, that makes bash+myApplication a single application? or just makes myApplication a broken one? because bash could not be present? Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 0:36
  • so in short: by depending on bash to run, myApplication must be GPL too? Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 0:38
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    "if the two programs are combined so that they become effectively two parts of one program", well, myApplication will do the combining step, making myApplication+bash one application, and so myApplication must be GPL, or am I wrong? Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 0:43
  • In theory, one could write a bash clone under a different license, so it isn't strictly speaking true that bash scripts depend 100% on bash to run. Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 0:46
  • @StevenBurnap, I just found this that says exactly what you said. So, I would be coding in a language, but the interpreter license would not affect the code made in that language, as another equivalent interpreter could have other license. Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 0:53