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* The GIMP application core, and other portions of the official GIMP
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distribution not explicitly licensed otherwise, are licensed under
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the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see the 'COPYING' file in this
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directory for details.
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[ The below explicit exemption, we hope, clears up the GIMP
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developers' position concerning an ambiguity with the GNU General
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Public License concerning what constitutes a 'mere aggregation'
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versus a combined or derived work. The intention is to make it
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clear that arbitrarily-licensed programs such as GIMP plug-ins do
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not automatically assume the GNU General Public License (GPL)
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themselves simply because of their invocation of (or by) procedures
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implemented in GPL-licensed code, via libgimp or a similar interface
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to methods provided by the pdb: ]
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* If you create a program which invokes (or provides) methods within
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(or for) the GPL GIMP application core through the medium of libgimp
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or another implementation of the 'procedural database' (pdb) serial
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protocol, then the GIMP developers' position is that this is a 'mere
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aggregation' of the program invoking the method and the program
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implementing the method as per section 2 of the GNU General Public
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License.
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* 'libgimp' and the other GIMP libraries are licensed under the
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GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see the 'COPYING' file in the
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libgimp directory for details.
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