The libraries needed for a GIMP plug-in are licensed under the LGPL. The way the architecture is now, plug-ins don't link against the app directly.
Quite so. However, from the GPL FAQ (I presume this is the root of Joao's excitement):
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
This implies that it *may* be quite plausible for the GIMP core to be considered as part of a plugin (or vice versa). Considered by whom, though, is another question. As I said, the ones to take umbrage at this binary coupling would be us, the developers, and we clearly don't intend to. But it probably worth making this clear as an explicit exemption in the LICENSE (this isn't an unusual action, for example GCC's libstdc code is GPL-licensed with exemptions for the resulting binary so as not to GPL-infect every C program built with with GCC[1]).
--Adam [1] Except for GCC versions circa 3.1 where they forgot to exempt some portions of the code that ends up in the installed libstdc so the aggregate libstdc and hence almost all C programs built with that compiler are *technically* GPL- infected -- but still, their intent is clear, that this was simply an oversight and they have no intention of asserting the GPL on their users. -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foxbox.org/ co:3 That gum you like is going to come back in style.
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