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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Josselin Mouette
  • Date: 2009-09-23 20:11:11 UTC
  • mto: (1.2.5 upstream) (2.4.1 sid)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 138.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090923201111-r4e2b6x5biik0ldh
Tags: upstream-2.28.0
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COPYING.EXTENSIONS
 
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Nautilus extensions link against the libnautilus-extenstions library which is
 
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is under the LGPL license. However, they also get loaded into the main
 
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nautilus program which is licensed under the GPL. So, extensions should not
 
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be incompatible with the LGPL or GPL.
 
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Some extensions are GPL but use some IPC mechanism like dbus to talk to a
 
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potentially non-GPL application. This is actually not such a bad design in
 
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general if your extension is doing a lot of work, as running as a nautilus
 
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extension with all its issues (no synchronous i/o, can't control of the
 
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context your code runs in, etc) can be kind of a pain.