<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Gaby's documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Gaby Developers' Guide" HREF="p489.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Gaby Developers' Guide" HREF="p489.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="What to know before writing Gaby plugins" HREF="x502.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Gaby's documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="p489.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x502.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="DEVELINTRO" ></A >Chapter 7. Introduction</H1 ><P >This document stands for a documentation about plugins as used by Gaby; it is only useful for developers who want to quickly learn about Gaby. Those who have time should be better served reading code.</P ><DIV CLASS="IMPORTANT" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="IMPORTANT" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/important.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Important"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >In cases where the code conflicts with this document the former wins.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN497" >7.1. Plugins licence</A ></H1 ><P >This is shamelessly copied from Gnumeric README.</P ><P >The current plugin setup in Gaby is just a way to dynamically load code at runtime into the address space of Gaby: they use and invoke pieces of Gaby code directly. This means that any plugin written under this scheme has to fall under the license of the GNU GPL.</P ><P >I agree there are other popular free licences (BSDish, Artistic, ...) and I'm not (at all) against them; I just want to respect GPL.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="p489.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x502.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Gaby Developers' Guide</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="p489.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >What to know before writing Gaby plugins</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >