Gnome and sound library

[Phil Barritt <pbarritt swbell net>]

I am implementing an application that will be closed source.  I used 
Glade to
prototype the GUI and used the Gnome extensions.  Once the prototype was
finished, I wanted to make sure that everything was on the up-and-up 
with the
licensing and that I wouldn't be mis-using GPL code. With an ldd list of 
bound
libraries, I checked all of the licenses in /usr/share/doc to verify the 
license
for each one.  There was one library that was GPL - libesd.so.  It seems 
that
this library is bound, via gnome-config to all gnome/gnomeui programs.  Once
I determined that, I dropped back to GTK (no Gnome) and replaced the only
Gnome widget that I had used (about-box) with my own code.

My question is this:  Are the Gnome developer/packagers aware of this issue?
And if so, is there any plan to eventually have an environment whrere Gnome
can be used for closed source applications?  

I tried searching the mail lists for some answer to this, but the search 
does not
work (at least today).  I am currently using RedHat ELWS, but the 
problem also
appears on RH8 and RH9.

Phil Barritt