[sldev] Media Rendering Plugin Framework Interaction

[Lawson English]

Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net 
> <mailto:lenglish5 at cox.net>> wrote:
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>     Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>     > What license would be required for plugins? Would there be another
>     > exception carved out for them, or would they have to be GPL?
>     > _______________________________________________
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>     I thought (corrections welcome) that even the original GPL exempts
>     separate processes connected via IPC from the GPL requirements.
>
>
> This is also my understanding. Note however that currently all the 
> example code and support code for plugins is provided under the GPL so 
> you'd have to work from the protocol spec which is not optimal.
>

Well, Rob used to say that it was OK to carefully document the protocols 
on the wiki. And no-one ever complained when I put the sample python 
code on the wiki under the common cause license, so while maybe certain 
developers can't look at the official GPL code directly for some reason, 
but there should be no reason why Snowglobe contributors can't provide 
well documented sample code for their paranoid brethren...

Lawson