Re: Licensing for Nautilus extensions

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Alexander:

> > > We've never thought much about this. Extensions are only linked to a
> > > LGPL library, but that is a very thin API that redirects to the
> > > implementation which is mainly GPL. I think this means that the
> > > extensions have to be GPL or at least GPL compatible, but IANAL.
> > Since this is a public integration point, it seems the documentation
> > should make this a bit more clear.  At the very least, it should be
> > documented that extensions link against LGPL, so a plugin shouldn't
> > be written with a LGPL incompatible license seems the sort of minimal
> > documentation that would be useful.  Should there be something like
> > a COPYING.PLUGINS file that could make this more clear?
>
> I added this:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/nautilus/tree/COPYING.EXTENSIONS

Thanks.  I think it is good to make this sort of thing more clear.

Doesn't nautilus have a few other integration points such as
"nautilus scripts"?  Might be good if this file also made mention about
any licensing issues (or lack of any) for all the commonly used
integration points for extending nautilus.

Brian