.xpm was probably picked because ten years ago it was the most widely-supported image format by programming libraries.
It's an insanely straight-forward format; I've literally written bash scripts to manipulate them. cheers stuart On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Yuan Cao <yuanca...@gmail.com> wrote: > To Whom This May Concern: > > I'm trying to create my own SGF editor in python as a fun personal side > project, and as a learning experience. I also wanted to have something that > made studying go on the computer a little easier, and thought this would be > a good first step. > > I tried to read through some of GNU Go's code for inspiration, and came > across the go board and go stone images. I would like to use them in my > program. > > I know that all source files are distributed under GNU GPL. Does that > include the image files? How can I legally use them? I am quite new to this, > does that mean my program must also have a GPL if I decide to put it on > GitHub, or put the source code somewhere public in order to get some > feedback from more experienced programmers? > > Image formats such as .jpg, .png, or .gif seem to be used much more often. > Was there a specific reason why .xpm was chosen instead? > > A lot of these questions are probably very newbie-ish. I would appreciate it > very much if I could get a reply, even if the reply is a link, or a few > words. > > Best Regards, > > Yuan Cao > > _______________________________________________ > gnugo-devel mailing list > gnugo-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel > _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list gnugo-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
