Hi Brian, On Mi, 20.05.2009 14:03, Brian Cameron wrote:
>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? If there is a requirement, it's surely not that it must be GPL, but that it must be GPL-compatible, giving you quite some choice [1]. In order to decide whether there is a GPL requirement in the first place, the GPL FAQ [2] might help, especially section "Combining work with code released under the GNU licenses". I would interpret [3] and [4] in a way stating that the extension must in fact be GPL-compatible, even if the Nautilus extension library itself is under LGPL. But IANAL either. Holger [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html [3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins [4] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLWrapper -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
