Hello Richard, Thanks for your reply!
In article <addr...@hidden>, Tord Romstad <addr...@hidden> wrote: > >The problem is that he plans to hire a professional graphics designer > >to draw the piece images and some other graphics, and to keep these > >graphical image files proprietary. He asks me whether the GPL allows > >this, and I honestly don't know myself. Does anyone here know more > >about this? > > I suppose the question is whether the image files count as part of the > source code of the program. If they are loaded at run-time, I would > guess that the answer is no, especially if you can configure the > program to load different ones. It's a strange border case, and it is hard to define exactly what the program is. I am not sure you are familiar with how applications in Mac OS X and the iPhone OS work, but what appears like an application to a user is actually a directory containing the executable file and various resources. In the case of the iPhone application I am talking about, the proprietary images will have to be part of the application bundle, but they will not be contained in the executable file itself. I suppose I should at least require that the source code builds correctly and gives a fully usable application (albeit perhaps with slightly less nice-looking graphics) without the proprieatary images. > But since you are the author, you can license it on any terms you > like. Do you want him to be able to do this? If so, you can add a > clause to your licence explicitly allowing it, regardless of whether > the vanilla GPL does. No, I don't want to modify my license. I definitely want programs derived from mine to use the GPL. Tord _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
