On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Frank Loeffler wrote: > If I put an rendered image under GPL, do I have to open the model > which I used to render it as well?
You have to include the prefered form for modification, which, as I read it, includes the model file used to render the image as well. I'd highly suggest doing this even if you don't think that the model is the prefered form for modification, as it will enable anyone who later works on the work to apply bug fixes to the model and anything else that was used to actually create the work. [I know I appreciate having vector forms of the works that I have to make modifications to.] > This might affect projects which are completely under GPL, but > include rendered graphics as well. Such projects are also present in > Debian AFAIK. Yes. This is something that most licensors don't really think about much, so when you run into them, approach upstream gently, and try to help them understand why they really want to include the actual files they use to modify the work. Feel free to enlist members of -legal if you need help in communicating with upstream. Don Armstrong -- "...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction, the Mac is MDMA, and MS-DOS is sniffing glue. (Windows is filling your sinuses with lucite and letting it set.) You owe the Oracle a twelve-step program." --The Usenet Oracle http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
