Le mer. 17 mai 2017 à 16:02, Ernestas Kulik <[email protected]> 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. -- -- Frédéric Crozat
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