Hi Alan, Orion,
I have no problems with replacing the image by the one Alan suggested. Regards, Arjen > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 9:26 PM > To: Orion Poplawski > Cc: PLplot development list > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: [Bug 1295175] New: plplot contain problematic > content > > On 2016-01-03 08:52-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > > > This does look like a problem, unless there is specific permission for > > this file? > > See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna> and especially > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lenna.png for historical information > concerning this > test image. > > It is clear from these references that the playboy connection annoys a > signicant > fraction of the population, and the licensing is problematic. Also, I must > say I am > frankly tired of looking at Lena's face especially in the distorted forms. (I > have just > finished the process of getting example 20 to work correctly for our new > Fortran > binding so I have just completed watching many _slow_ repetitions of that > example!) > > Anyhow, I would welcome the opportunity to try a new properly licensed test > image > for example 20. And I think a picture of a pet would be better than using a > picture of > a human since distortion of the image is part of our example 20 test. So I > would like > to change the test image to a PPM gray-scale version of > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Westie_Chloe.jpg>. PPM is easy to read > in (e.g., > in example 20), and gray scale is easiest for our cmap1 colours (which are > used by > plimage) to interpret (although any image format with paletted colors as > opposed to > direct colors would work). > > I particularly like that image as a test image because the subject is cute, we > obviously won't lose much information converting it PPM gray-scale, and the > image > is licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported" > license which apparently allows us to use the image any way we like so long > as we > give proper credit to its author. > > Is everyone willing to go along with this plan? > > Alan > > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for > stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project > (timeephem.sf.net); > PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi > project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the > Linux Brochure > Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail.
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