On 30 May 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > However, there is the issue of licensing. Gdk-pixbuf is released
> > under the LGPL, and the XCF loader uses big chunks of GPLed code from
> > the GIMP. I am not sure what is the best way to proceed.
> >
>
> Well, there are not many options.
>
> a) You find all the authors of that GPL code and get the license
> changed (avoiding this mess is the advantage of copyright
> assignment...)
>
> b) You don't include the code in gdk-pixbuf
>
> c) You do a clean-room reimplementation of the code
I think c) is the best solution. It's surely quite hard to find _all_
contributors to the code. And b) isn't a good solution if you imagine what
cool applications could be done with a xcf-loader module (e.g. nice image
cataloging tools).
Also there are a lot of modifications to the original gimp code in the
xcf-loader yet. So a clean rewrite is probably the best solution for
everyone.
Regards,
Jens
