Hi, "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I heard that Gobe Productive (http://www.gobe.com/) ships with > > plug-ins based on source code from The GIMP and sent them a letter > > asking for source code. I'm forwarding their answer here... > > IANAL, so IMO these are the things you should run by the FSF, just to > make sure. > > (zblt... acronym overload...) > > Specifically, I wonder if using GPL'ed plug-ins cause the main app to > become GPL'ed. I think the license could indeed be interpreted in that way. Actually a couple of commercial applications showed up over the years that definitely (or most probably) use GIMP code to some extent. This is at least annoying and I wonder if we should start to defend our licence. On the other hand we might be interested in establishing the GIMP plug-in protocol and could even benefit from commercial apps supporting it. Salut, Sven
