On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 14:03 -0500, Brian Cameron 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.
We've never thought much about this. Extensions are only linked to a LGPL library, but that is a very thin API that redirects to the implementation which is mainly GPL. I think this means that the extensions have to be GPL or at least GPL compatible, but IANAL. Some extensions, like the dropbox one[1] are GPL but use some IPC mechanism to talk to a non-free app. This is actually not such a bad design in general if your extension is doing a lot of heavy stuff, as running as a nautilus extension with all its issues (no sync i/o, no control of the context of things run it, etc) can be kind of a pain. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list