Re: GIMP Plug-ins for other Apps? - LGPL for some GIMP modules?

[Andrew Kieschnick]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On  2 Nov, Andrew Kieschnick wrote:
> 
> > Gimp plug-ins are not linked into the calling program (they are run as
> > > separate processes), so you can call them from any program you like 
> > without violating the GPL.
> 
>  However you have to link Plug-ins against libgimp and possibly
>  libgimpui and here you've got your problem. If you just have a Plug-in
>  which computes everything internally and then just uses the standard way
>  of exchanging data with GIMP you'll be on the safe side...

libgimp and libgimpui are LGPLed, so that isn't a problem.

later,
Andrew