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| author | Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> | 2009-05-27 11:05:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> | 2009-05-27 11:06:31 +0200 |
| commit | 7d9b6812d006d9aeecfb33d072cb382184fb901b (patch) | |
| tree | 5b94021234a0e848b51751729020add84550af3e /COPYING.EXTENSIONS | |
| parent | 74782b711adccfb85273ac38484e4adac8e010b4 (diff) | |
| download | nautilus-7d9b6812d006d9aeecfb33d072cb382184fb901b.tar.gz | |
Add COPYING.EXTENSIONS clarifying some extension license issues
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diff --git a/COPYING.EXTENSIONS b/COPYING.EXTENSIONS new file mode 100644 index 000000000..22b47e655 --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING.EXTENSIONS @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Nautilus extensions link against the libnautilus-extenstions library which is +is under the LGPL license. However, they also get loaded into the main +nautilus program which is licensed under the GPL. So, extensions should not +be incompatible with the LGPL or GPL. + +Some extensions are GPL but use some IPC mechanism like dbus to talk to a +potentially non-GPL application. This is actually not such a bad design in +general if your extension is doing a lot of work, as running as a nautilus +extension with all its issues (no synchronous i/o, can't control of the +context your code runs in, etc) can be kind of a pain. |