Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 What's wrong with d) Keep the XCF loaded GPL if I understand that correctly, the loaders are shared libraries which dnyamically loaded so they can theoretically have different licenses or do I miss something ? Sure, I'd prefer a) - but IMO d) is much better than b) or even c). -- Martin Baulig martin@xxxxxxxxx (private) baulig@xxxxxxx (work)
