Thanks for that. The files' copyright notice is: > // THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF > // ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO > // THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A > // PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > // > // Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved But the SDK license says this: > You may modify, copy, and distribute the source and object code form > of code marked as “sample.” Which I think clears us. With that and Satoshi's Vista testing both sorted, I've uploaded a GPLed 1.0 release.
One technical caveat: I stop reading/decompressing the file after 70KB. At the moment that encompasses the thumbnail, but things might change in the future! On 23/12/2010 12:40, Campbell Barton wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers