On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Tom Edwards <cont...@steamreview.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, here's a small project I just completed: > http://steamreview.org/external/blender/BlendThumb.zip > > It's a thumbnail handler for Windows 7 and Vista that extracts the > .blend thumbnails generated by Blender 2.5 for display in Explorer. It's > feature complete (including compressed blend support), but there are two > niggles left before it's final: > > - I haven't actually tested it on Vista. Feedback appreciated! > > - I'm unclear on licensing. I'd like it to be GPL but there are two > problems: firstly I'm using the Windows API, and secondly the code is > based on a sample thumb handler provided in the Windows SDK. I've > replaced all of the meat, but a lot of the supporting COM guff is the > same as in the sample because it's so simple that I can't see any other > way of doing what it does. Does anyone have experience of what happens > in situations like this? > > Thanks!
Re: GPL, Lots of opensource apps use the Windows API, there shouldn't be any problems releasing this as GPL unless you copied someone elses non-GPL code it should not be a problem. IANAL: If the sample code doesn't have a license I would consider it to be reference/documentation, after all MS cant expect to own part of every app that uses their thumbnail example reference as a basis. So I think its safe to release as GPL2 & eventually commit to blender/trunk. -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers