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