Re: Fwd: [magick-users] G'MIC, command line image processing software, using Magick++

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:

> 2008/9/12 Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>>> On Fri, 
> 12 Sep 2008, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:>> > FYI,> > Looks interesting.>> 
> Yes, it does look interesting and innovative.The license is not BSD 
> compatible.I like the code and their ideas but it comes to 
> legal/license issue ifwe want to integrate it as a sub command( 
> image filter) into GM, orsteal some code from it.

The first item in the Acceptance clause is sufficient to bar this 
software from many distributions.  While it is true that copyright 
applies to copying, the concept that the license is accepted by merely 
downloading the software from a server or loading from a CD is quite 
problematic.  The clause basically makes downloading the software 
(perhaps not even being aware of doing it) is the same as signing a 
contract.

Regardless, there is nothing to prevent people from downloading and 
enjoying the software.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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