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Add COPYING.EXTENSIONS clarifying some extension license issues
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Nautilus extensions link against the libnautilus-extenstions library which is
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is under the LGPL license. However, they also get loaded into the main
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nautilus program which is licensed under the GPL. So, extensions should not
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be incompatible with the LGPL or GPL.
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Some extensions are GPL but use some IPC mechanism like dbus to talk to a
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potentially non-GPL application. This is actually not such a bad design in
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general if your extension is doing a lot of work, as running as a nautilus
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extension with all its issues (no synchronous i/o, can't control of the
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context your code runs in, etc) can be kind of a pain.
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