copyright issue
Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.core |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Cristy,
The approach you have chosen in ImageMagick to document the modules
which are copyrighted by the GraphicsMagick Group requires that each
effected area or module be listed or it must be assumed by the reader
to not be copyrighted by the GraphicsMagick Group. The module
"pattern.c" which appeared in ImageMagick-5.5.7-1 is clearly the work
of GraphicsMagick Group. Likewise the formats.html documentation
(including images/patterns) is clearly the work of GraphicsMagick
Group. The authorship and all copyright statements were stripped from
logo.c when it was used to create pattern.c. The header of logo.c
contains:
/*
% Copyright (C) 2003 GraphicsMagick Group
% Parts Copyright (c) 1985-1988 by Supoj Sutanthavibul
% Parts Copyright (c) 1989-2000 by Brian V. Smith
% Parts Copyright (c) 1991 by Paul King
% Parts Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio
% Parts Copyright 1991-1999 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
%
% This program is covered by multiple licenses, which are described in
% Copyright.txt. You should have received a copy of Copyright.txt with this
% package; otherwise see http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/Copyright.html.
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% %
% %
% %
% L OOO GGGG OOO %
% L O O G O O %
% L O O G GG O O %
% L O O G G O O %
% LLLLL OOO GGG OOO %
% %
% %
% Read/Write GraphicsMagick Image Format. %
% %
% %
% Software Design %
% John Cristy %
% July 1992 %
% Bob Friesenhahn %
% May 2003 %
% %
% %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
%
*/
but pattern.c has stripped authorship and copyright information
/*
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% %
% %
% %
% PPPP AAA TTTTT TTTTT EEEEE RRRR N N %
% P P A A T T E R R NN N %
% PPPP AAAAA T T EEE RRRR N N N %
% P A A T T E R R N NN %
% P A A T T EEEEE R R N N %
% %
% %
% %
% Read/Write ImagePattern Image Format. %
% %
% %
% Software Design %
% John Cristy %
% July 1992 %
% %
% %
% Copyright (C) 2003 ImagePattern Studio, a non-profit organization dedicated %
% to making software imaging solutions freely available. %
% %
% Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a %
% copy of this software and associated documentation files ("ImagePattern"), %
% to deal in ImagePattern without restriction, including without limitation %
% the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, %
% and/or sell copies of ImagePattern, and to permit persons to whom the %
% ImagePattern is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: %
% %
% The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in %
% all copies or substantial portions of ImagePattern. %
% %
% The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or %
% implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, %
% fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall %
% ImagePattern Studio be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, %
% whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of %
% or in connection with ImagePattern or the use or other dealings in %
% ImagePattern. %
% %
% Except as contained in this notice, the name of the ImagePattern Studio %
% shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or %
% other dealings in ImagePattern without prior written authorization from the %
% ImagePattern Studio. %
% %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
%
*/
There are a number of other areas which are not listed in
ImageMagick's Copyright.txt, but were copied from GraphicsMagick. A
number of ImageMagick web pages are GraphicsMagick pages which have
been imported and adapted to the ImageMagick web page style. These
pages are not listed in Copyright.txt. The page at
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/objectives.html is an excellent example
of this since it is an import of the GraphicsMagick mission statement.
Since you have chosen to itemize files which are copyright
GraphicsMagick Group, please ensure that the itemized list is correct
and kept up to date. Also, please preserve and respect any relevant
copyrights for code obtained from other software packages. It is very
tiring for me to have to monitor ImageMagick for undocumented imports
of GraphicsMagick code and files. It would be much easier if you
would take care of this yourself since certainly you are aware of when
a file or substantial code is copied.
On another issue, I notice that yesterday you posted to the
magick-developers list that GraphicsMagick had "removed your
authorship from the code". This is not true. In fact, your name does
not even appear in the ImageMagick package as the author
(ImageMagick's README.txt says "The author is
[email protected]."). It only appears in file headers
(this information has been fully preserved) and in the ChangeLog file.
Thanks,
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected]
http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
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