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List:       gphoto-devel
Subject:    [gphoto-devel] Re: gPhoto2 licensing clarification (was Re: Introduction and Comments)
From:       David Brownell <david-b () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2000-08-19 11:40:08
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> gPhoto2 is the new design. It is more driver-centric. It is a 3-tiered
> design:
> 
> [front-end]------[gPhoto2 core]------[camera libraries]

I've not seen the gphoto2 stuff yet; are these APIs done in
network-transparent ways?  I know that corba handles most of
the functionality you'd described as "core" (except defining
camera-specific apis and policies), and that such protocol
level interop is a common way to let software with all sorts
of crazy constraints (licensing, platforms, etc) interoperate.

That approach got a bunch of airplay not that long ago as the
guts of the next X11 desktops; my current Gnome desktops sure
do seem to use it.  One doesn't need to use corba to use that
approach, if some other middleware has sufficient advantages.
But that's a natural way to address the OS/2 style problems.


> Here is the licensing that gPhoto2 is currently under is:
> - the gPhoto2 core is LGPL
> - the gPhoto2 camera libraries are unspecified.

... and I think you said there's to be a GPL'd front end.
Isn't that part of gphoto2?  Decoupling those would be a
pretty major redefinition of the project.

Also, gPhoto2 camera libraries derived from gphoto 0.4.x code
will normally be remaining GPL ... and would, I hope, be
part of the "gPhoto2" package one will download.

- Dave

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