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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Most of the colorspaces are back !
From:       Clarence Dang <dang () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-11-25 20:54:56
Message-ID: 200611260754.58630.dang () kde ! org
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On Sunday 26 November 2006 05:44, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Saturday 25 November 2006 12:06, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > As for kolourpaint, which is bsd, it can links
> > against pigment and remains bsd. But as soon as some users wants to use
> > one of the plugins colorspace the binary becomes GPL.
>
> Nope. It doesn't work that way. If Clarence takes the LGPL pigment library
> and one of his users take our GPL rgb32 plugin, the license of Kolourpaint
> doesn't change at all. It is impossible for a user to change the license of
> an application: only the author can do that.

That's great! :)  I'll look into using as much of the pigment code as 
possible.

And yes, about the licensing interpretation of GPL plugins, I agree with 
Boudewijn.
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