[Gimp-developer] Re: Quesitons about support for Djvu format and Color selection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-07-15 at 2036.12 +0200): idea for a gimp color selection dialog. They we call it Palette dialog and it has been around for years. Well, this palette was a bit bigger and the name appeared inside the colour (faster, I guess). But nothing too radical, I guess people ignore the dialogs too much. GSR ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Quesitons about support for Djvu format and Color selection
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:15:28PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-07-15 at 1042.57 -0700): 1) I was on the lizard tech site a while back, and I stumbled onto this page: http://www.lizardtech.com/products/djvu/referencelibrary/DjVuRefLib_3.0.html I am relatively ignorent of coding, but I have seen Djvu images in action and been quite impressed. It was originally developed by ATT and then sold to these guys. If this site is correct, they have released some fairly interesting software under GPL, including the complete decoder and some more basic encoding abilities for the djvu format. Would this be useful to add to the gimp? Has anyone looked into this before? When coders see the word patent near something, they can get very nervous, even if it says that they grant it. Ask the company, maybe they want to create and maintain it, as PR. BTW, they are messing GPL and Open Source. Hohoho, if FSF people reads the page. GSR A quick skim of the webpage seems to indicate the know what the GPL is. The only thing I can see that's interesting is what happens if they use the GPL'ed code in their commercial products? Given the nature of the GPL, surely that means they'd have to distribute source of the other products too? They certainly would have to if they ever accept contributions from the outside world under the GPL, I believe. Stephen -- Stephen Norris[EMAIL PROTECTED] Farrow Norris Pty Ltd +61 417 243 239 PGP signature
[Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Quesitons about support for Djvu format and Color selection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-07-16 at 0850.45 +1000): A quick skim of the webpage seems to indicate the know what the GPL is. Then they will link to FSF, not Open Source. If you say GPL and Open Source, and a FSF guy heards it, like Stallman, you will get some mails explaining the differences. The only thing I can see that's interesting is what happens if they use the GPL'ed code in their commercial products? Given the nature of the GPL, surely that means they'd have to distribute source of the other products too? As owners of their code, they can use their code with other licenses. They can not put others code into that apps, so I guess patches will only be accepted if copyrights are transfered. Yes, it is possible to do that, to distribute under multiple licenses and to transfer rights. They certainly would have to if they ever accept contributions from the outside world under the GPL, I believe. No, they can say we accept, and it will stay in the GPL codec, but you must transfer the rights so we can use that code as non GPL inside other apps. It is similar with FSF, they want the rights if you want your app to be official FSF, but this time they want it to sue when somebody does not follow the rules (GPL). If you do not want it to be official, so they will not go to courts if problems arise, you can keep the rights. I think they have docs about all this in http://www.gnu.org/. GSR ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
