
This the G App Libs (GAL).

This module contains some library functions that came from Gnumeric
and Evolution.  The idea is to reuse those widgets across various
larger GNOME applications that might want to use these widgets.

Please notice that these widgets are currently licensed under the
terms of the GNU GPL (with the exception of the gtk-combo-box which is
under the LGPL).  

Individual files might be owned by different contributors (originally
most of the code was contributed by Helix) and each file might be
under a different copyright.  For files owned by Helix, we request
that you sign a copyright assignment on the code. This would allow
Helix Code in the future to redistribute the code it fully owns under
a difference license.

If you want to contribute code to Gal, you still need to contact the
maintainers of this module as with any other module in GNOME, as the
maintainers are the people which will have to deal with bug reports,
compilation problems, portability issues and quality assurance.

Given that people have expressed their interested in putting new
widgets into Gal that are completely authored by them, that code would
not be owned by Helix Code and the author is free to decide what he
wants to do, Helix would assist authors. 

The API is not frozen and might change at any time.  Larger class
renaming might happen at any point without notice.  Use this library
at your own risk.

We envision some of these widgets being moved to Gtk+ or Gnome-Libs at
some point, but not before 2.0, and certainly we dont know which ones
yet.  Any code that we move, will be relicensed under the terms of the
GNU LGPL, and the copyright transfered to the FSF or the GNOME
foundation.

We are still working out whether we want to pursue the copyright
assignment or find alternative ways for it.  Please bear with us while
we decide this.

Miguel.

