On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Brian Cameron <brian.came...@sun.com> wrote: > > Nautilus Experts: > > I have a co-worker who is writing a Nautilus extension. He was wondering if > Nautilus extensions must be under a particular license. > Since nautilus uses the GPL, does this imply that any Nautilus > extension must also be GPL? Or can any license be used for a > Nautilus extension? > > I have checked the nautilus module COPYING/COPYING.LIB/README/etc. > files, and other relevant documentation [1], but I do not see any > information about this. Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Brian
A great deal of Nautilus as well as libnautilus-extension (the part you link to when writing an extension) is under the LGPL. See headers of any file in the libnautilus-extension directory[1]. [Ordinary disclaimers here (IANAL, etc).] -A. Walton [1]: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/nautilus/tree/libnautilus-extension > > > [1] Relevant documentation > http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus > http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus/Extending > http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/unstable/nautilus-extensions.html.en > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > nautilus-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
