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+* 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.
+