Hi, Dave Neary <dave.neary@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Everything distributed with The GIMP should be GPL, LGPL or a compatible > > license. Actually we assume that all plug-ins in the GIMP distribution are > > GPLed. > > To my mind (and I may be wrong there), plug-ins are just applications > which depend on the GIMP, and an interface provided by it - so they can > be licenced under any old licence that you might deign to choose. In > much the same way as (say) proprietary Linux applications are just > applications which depend on Linux & interfaces it provides (when > distributed in binary form anyway). > > So if one wanted to release a plug-in as a proprietary application (God > knows why you'd want to - I don't believe anyone would pay for a module > to a graphics application), I don't see any GPL issues myself. Am I > wrong? You are right. I was speaking about plug-ins/scripts distributed with The GIMP. We have choosen to make libgimp LGPL to allow others to choose different licenses for their plug-ins, but we will refuse to distribute them with The GIMP. Salut, Sven
