[CREATE] Due Dilligence: licensing of the GIMP gradients?

[Alan Horkan]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:25:36 +0400
> From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>
> To: create at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [CREATE] Due Dilligence: licensing of the GIMP gradients?
>
> On 9/13/05, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>
> > > I know Pantone colors are heavily protected by copyright/trademark, but
> > > this does not means this is the right thing to do also with GIMP gradients.
> >
> > I have talked previously about the need for some kind of open color
> > standard which could be protected by some type of license in the face of
> > the "monopoly on color" that pantone has currently.
> >
> > I wonder if we could define and protect "open color" with LGPL? I don't
> > want to not allow ppl. to use these for commercial interests, but this
> > would help this cause.
> >
> > Yes, we must free the color. I think this idea could really take off.
> > What do you all think?
>
> One of my intents to come up with the spec was further work at
> existing formats to allow storing metadata such as license.
>
> I'm not really sure whether LGPL applies nicely to
> gradients/swatches/etc. For me they all should be public domain.

Adobe seem to dump XMP inside old comment blocks.
Most file formats support some kind of support for comments
Crude but effective.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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