[gmpi] Re: Instruments done, moving on to "Plugin Files"

From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:39:21 +0100

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:44:00PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:37:51PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > >I'm all for rich meta-data. I'm not sure I see how it matters whether the
> > >meta-data is embedded in the shared object code and accessed via a
> > >function or whether it is stored as a separate text file or any other
> > >system.
> > 
> > if you read what steve wrote, he pointed out that licensing issues
> > that affect the shared object code should preferably not affect the
> > metadata. ergo - separate files.
> 
> I don't buy that.  any developer who is going to make their meta-data
> freely licensable is not going to balk at having it licensable in
> *whatever* source.

Yeah, but technically and legally that is hard to achieve, how do you
indicate that this segment of a DLL is licenced under [whatever licence
GMPI states], but the rest is commercial, rights reserved licence.

In the case of the GPL I'm pretty sure it can't be done. Distributing the
metadata segment would require you to (offer to) distribute the source for
the DLL, which is silly.

In any case, as we've allready agreed to using bundles I dont see how it
makes sense to weld this particular block of data into a DLL. For most
purposes the host should just have to look at the metadata file to know
enough to display a UI entry for the plugin, so it saves it doing an
expensive DLL open.

- Steve

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