On 18/01/07, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > > True. You just loose all rights to use Scribus if you distribute those > scripts under a non-GPL licence... ;-) > > Seriously, I don't know what the exact position of the Scribus team > is on this point. Maybe we should clarify that in the future.
I hope it can be clarified as soon as possible :-) > For myself I wouldn't like it if someone distributed Scribus together with > non OSS scripts, but I can (probably have to) live with someone distributing > the scripts independently of Scribus. > Let's see what the others think. It all revolves around this, I think: > > scripts and extensions which directly call the Scribus core and gui. A generic python script that the interpreter inside python can process is not a derived work, but something that calls Scribus core/gui is. If they are a derived work, which I think they are but IANAL, then they are automatically subject to the GPL, even if they are not distributed with Scribus. I think the GPL FAQs questions about free plugins for non-free software are kind of relevant, because scripts are very similar to plugins, they are just interpreted instead of compiled. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs -- Regards, Dave
