Re: Gtk && Xara



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On 10/18/2005 11:28 AM, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:17:57PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:

This whole discussion is pointless, since GTK+ is LGPL, not GPL...

How does this prevent anyone from creating a derived work of
Gtk+ and something GPLed and distribute it under GNU GPL?

Matthias' point was that GPL Xara code cannot be integrated into the
GTK+ mainline, because that would force GTK+ to be released under the
GPL.  Ditto for Cairo.  That doesn't stop someone from forking
GTK+/Cairo and releasing a Xara-enabled package under the GPL, but that
means maintaining what will likely be a very different version (of
Cairo, at least).

This discussion might be pointless on gtk-devel, but we are
on gtk-app-devel.

Personally, I find this discussion OT for gtk-app-devel, period, but
nobody asked me ^_~.

        -brian

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