Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+

Le mer. 17 mai 2017 à 16:02, Ernestas Kulik <[email protected]> a écrit :

> (Attempt no. 2, since Geary hates me)
>
> Hi,
>
> As the current licensing situation in Nautilus is quite complicated, I
> and Carlos are planning a move to relicense the entire codebase to
> GPLv3+.
>
> The codebase has files under several licenses: LGPLv2+, GPLv2+ and
> GPLv3+, the latter implicitly making the project be licensed under its
> terms, so our options are quite limited here.
>
> The situation wrt extensions is also not entirely clear, as the
> extension library is LGPLv2+ with Nautilus being GPLv2+, which in turn
> disallows loading non-free extensions. Given the fact that it is not
> meant to be a generic mechanism for loading extensions, I feel like
> relicensing it without much consideration is reasonable.
>

I know at least one proprietary extension  for Nautilus (integration with
Synology NAS product) and I'm not sure we should prevent
proprietary extensions to be used for Nautilus.

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Frédéric Crozat

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