Re: License of the XCF loader in Imlib2
Hi, I would at first try to be a bit more friendly. I think, it is sufficient if one of the original authors writes an E-mail mentioning that Carsten forgot something and explaining what. What he did was definitely wrong but he should be given a chance to get out of the issue without losing his face. I guess it was a mistake (though a nasty one). I agree with this opinion and would be happy if we could set up a short email that we send to the Imlib2 people signed by some of the people owning the copyright of the affected code. Since it seems not necessary to involve Peter and Spencer at this point, some of the people who have made changes to the code should be ok as senders. I'm short in time right now. Who wants to set up an apropriate email ?? Salut, Sven
Re: License of the XCF loader in Imlib2
On 25 Jun, Sven Neumann wrote: I agree with this opinion and would be happy if we could set up a short email that we send to the Imlib2 people signed by some of the people owning the copyright of the affected code. Since it seems not necessary to involve Peter and Spencer at this point, some of the people who have made changes to the code should be ok as senders. I'm short in time right now. Who wants to set up an apropriate email ?? I'm waiting for an answer of the person who checked in the code. Maybe we should wait for his mail before considering further steps? -- Servus, Daniel
Re: License of the XCF loader in Imlib2
On 25 Jun, Nick Lamb wrote: It "appeared" courtesy of someone identified only as "cK", hopefully those working on Imlib2 will know that handle (though who knows, it doesn't look like an expertly managed project to me, maybe anyone can get CVS write privs) and remove their write privs. This code has been checked in by Christian Kreibich. Maybe we should contact him first... -- Servus, Daniel
License of the XCF loader in Imlib2
Hi, yesterday night on #gimp someone pointed out that an XCF loader appeared in the Imlib2 CVS tree. I was curious, checked out the source and had a closer look. There are two files, namely loader_xcf.c and loader_xcf_pixelfuncs.c, and as expected they contain code from the gimp tree, more exactly, from app/xcf.c and app/paint_funcs.c. The copyright header is however missing from both files and only loader_xcf_pixelfuncs.c has a small hint somewhere at the top that code was taken from the gimp source. Imlib2 seems to be distributed under the X11 license. Since it is quite short, I have attached the text of the file COPYING as found in the Imlib2 source tree so you can have a closer look yourself. It's definitely not our intention to make life too hard for someone who wants to hack an XCF loader. This has been clearly stated lately when the gdk-pixbuf people asked us to allow to include the relevant code under the LGPL license. Simply using the code, removing the copyright notices and putting it under a non-compatible license is however too much if you ask me and we shouldn't let Carsten get away with this. I'm not too deep into licenses and I hate to deal with legal questions. Could someone please step forward and take care of asking Carsten to change the files and take legal actions if it becomes necessary ?! Salut, Sven Copyright (C) 1999 Carsten Haitzler and various contributors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software, its documentation and marketing publicity materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation, materials and software packages that this Software was used. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Re: License of the XCF loader in Imlib2
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:14:02PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: yesterday night on #gimp someone pointed out that an XCF loader appeared in the Imlib2 CVS tree. I was curious, checked out the source and had a closer look. It "appeared" courtesy of someone identified only as "cK", hopefully those working on Imlib2 will know that handle (though who knows, it doesn't look like an expertly managed project to me, maybe anyone can get CVS write privs) and remove their write privs. I await Raster's misspelled commentary on this problem, hopefully accompanied by the removal of the offending code from CVS. Nick.
