Re: API Freeze Schedule and outstanding API bugs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> writes:
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > The thing to do is probably to add support for third-party loaders to
> > gdk-pixbuf and then distribute the loader with Gimp, or something.
> 
> You would still be (dynamically) linking to a GPL module, which would
> be allowed for a proprietary program that uses the LGPLed gdk-pixbuf.
> 

<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.

Havoc