Le mercredi 17 mai 2017 à 14:55 +0000, Frederic Crozat a écrit : > Le mer. 17 mai 2017 à 16:02, Ernestas Kulik <ernest...@gnome.org> a > écrit : > > (Attempt no. 2, since Geary hates me) > > > > Hi, > > > > As the current licensing situation in Nautilus is quite > > complicated, I > > and Carlos are planning a move to relicense the entire codebase to > > GPLv3+. > > > > The codebase has files under several licenses: LGPLv2+, GPLv2+ and > > GPLv3+, the latter implicitly making the project be licensed under > > its > > terms, so our options are quite limited here. > > > > The situation wrt extensions is also not entirely clear, as the > > extension library is LGPLv2+ with Nautilus being GPLv2+, which in > > turn > > disallows loading non-free extensions. Given the fact that it is > > not > > meant to be a generic mechanism for loading extensions, I feel like > > relicensing it without much consideration is reasonable. > > I know at least one proprietary extension for Nautilus (integration > with Synology NAS product) and I'm not sure we should prevent > proprietary extensions to be used for Nautilus.
You can just mimic Totem exception clause. This is used to allow proprietary GStreamer plugins. https://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/tree/COPYING#n345 regards, Nicolas
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