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Bug 129185 - consider adding license information to the module info struct
consider adding license information to the module info struct
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdk-pixbuf
Classification: Platform
Component: general
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-12 11:58 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2010-07-10 04:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Matthias Clasen 2003-12-12 11:58:25 UTC 
We've recently WONTFIXED a number of enhancement requests for image loaders 


partly due to licensing concerns. Adding some form of license 
identification to the module info struct would allow apps to avoid using 
loaders with an inappropriate license. 


I think gstreamer does something like this.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2004-06-29 14:14:56 UTC 
I think this should just be a way for image loaders to expose information about
their license, applications can then use the "disable individual loader" feature
to disable the loader if the license is not compatible. I don't think gdk-pixbuf
should do "license arithmetic" itself to figure which licenses are compatible...