On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 08:02, Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 06:25, Julian Groß via Devel > <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > > > > Dear Geany developers, > > > > > > is it possible to use the default Geany colour theme (as defined in > > https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/data/filedefs/filetypes.common > > ) in an MIT licensed project? > > I have recently switched to KDevelop, created a Geany colour theme for > > it, and would like to upstream that. > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/465 > > > > Note that IANAL (but I know one) and this does not constitute legal > advice. And the law in your jurisdiction may be different to mine. > > filetypes.common is not explicitly licensed, but it is reasonable to > infer that the overall Geany license GPL2+ applies. > > That license applies to the copyright, eg the actual file, so a > different file in different format is not covered by GPL even if it > happens to produce the same colours. > > For analogy a photo of a cat is copyright, but that copyright does not > prevent other photos of cats, or even of the same cat. > > So there it should be ok if a theme written in a different language, > JSON, that happens to use the same colours, has a different license. > > Cheers > Lex > > PS Colomban's reply came in just before I sent this, the fundamental > mistake (IMHO) he has made is that the copyright covers anything other > than the specific work, ie the set of colours rather than the file > that specifies them for Geany. >
PPS of course I found the reference I wanted after I pressed send :-P From Wikipedia "Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself" > > > > Greetings > > Julian Groß > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org
