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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 18:30:19 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 18:30:19 +0000 |
commit | 5c1676dfe6d2f3c837a5e074117b45613fd29a72 (patch) | |
tree | cbffb45144febf451e54061db2b21395faf94bfe /LICENSE | |
parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 2.10.34.upstream/2.10.34upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +* The GIMP application core, and other portions of the official GIMP + distribution not explicitly licensed otherwise, are licensed under + the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see the 'COPYING' file in this + directory for details. + +[ The below explicit exemption, we hope, clears up the GIMP + developers' position concerning an ambiguity with the GNU General + Public License concerning what constitutes a 'mere aggregation' + versus a combined or derived work. The intention is to make it + clear that arbitrarily-licensed programs such as GIMP plug-ins do + not automatically assume the GNU General Public License (GPL) + themselves simply because of their invocation of (or by) procedures + implemented in GPL-licensed code, via libgimp or a similar interface + to methods provided by the pdb: ] + +* If you create a program which invokes (or provides) methods within + (or for) the GPL GIMP application core through the medium of libgimp + or another implementation of the 'procedural database' (pdb) serial + protocol, then the GIMP developers' position is that this is a 'mere + aggregation' of the program invoking the method and the program + implementing the method as per section 2 of the GNU General Public + License. + +* 'libgimp' and the other GIMP libraries are licensed under the + GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see the 'COPYING' file in the + libgimp directory for details. + |