On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:00 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Benjamin Ducke wrote: > > Good stuff > > > > All the palettes are available in GMT color format, which is just plain > > ASCII and very similar to GRASS' own colour rule files in the 'cols' > > database elements. The only major difference seems to be three > > additional lines at the end of the file specifying colours for > > foreground, background and no data areas which could simply be > > discarded. > > Indeed. Will have to poke around in the r.colors source -- anyone an expert > on > how the rules file is parsed?
See the r.colors manual page for details. It is similar to the GMT .cpt format, but still needs a little conversion. > > P.S.: Some of these palettes actually have licenses attached to them. > > What sort of a world do we live in that requires the most trivial > > things to be licensed? Come on people, you can give _some_ things to > > the public domain w/o conditions ... > > My thoughts exactly- however you are going to have to pay-up if you decide to > implement this idea! j/k The product palette image can be copyrighted, but the palette, itself, cannot be copyrighted. >From copyrights.gov[1] - What can NOT be copyrighted (not a complete list): "- Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents. - Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration. - Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)." [1] http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wnp -- 73, de Brad KB8UYR/6 <rez touchofmadness com> _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
