Re: API Freeze Schedule and outstanding API bugs

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> <amateur lawyering>If a proprietary app distributes with the GPL
> loader, they must distribute under GPL. However if the app works fine
> with only LGPL code and the user happens to link in some GPL code,
> that doesn't place any requirements on the proprietary app author.

<amateur lawyering>But, it seems to me that if you had a proprietary gtk
app (say, an image viewer) and a GPLed gdk-pixbuf loader, that it would
violate the GPL to ship both of them as part of the same distribution,
because you know some people are going to use them together.</>

-- Dan