On 31 May 2001, Bernhard Herzog wrote: > Shlomi Fish <shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > My plan up to this moment is to have the following program: > > > > 1. Write a Public-Domain Library in ANSI C (perhaps dependant on some > > external libraries) that can be used to render those gradients based on > > their guides. > > That's the most important part and may be all that Sketch would really > need. > > Is it possible to put code into the public domain in Israel? European > copyright law (which does not apply to Israel) does not allow that for > instance. > Frankly, I don't know whether Israeli Law allows that. For that matter, I did not know that European law did not allow such a thing, so this comes as a surprise for me. In any case, assuming I cannot release code under the public domain, can't I transfer it to the copyright of an American, who will in turn release it under the public-domain? In the worst case I'll release it under a multiple license of MIT-X/BSD (Without the publicizing clause)/LGPL / etc... > > 2. Write a Public-Domain GUI Editor in Gtk+ that can be used to > > interactively edit and display those gradients. > > > > 3. Create Gimp PDB entries to control and manipulate those gradients. > > > > 4. Integrate all of them with the GIMP, while making part of the code > > of the glue GPLed. > > > > This is of-course, assuming the project will be accepted, and if my future > > partner agrees with this scheme. > > > > Can Sketch use C code that is GPLed? > > In principle, yes. But it probably won't matter if the parts Sketch > needs, i.e. the rendering library and perhaps parts of the editor, are > public domain. > > > I know that it is written in Python > > and that the Python license of the newer Python releases is incompatible > > with it. > > Well, the python license does not apply to programs written in Python, > but anyway, AFACT the upcoming Python releases (2.2, 2.1.1, 2.0.1) will > have a license that is indeed GPL compatible. The lates changes to the > LICENSE file in Python CVS removed the offending clauses. > That's good. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Bernhard > > -- > Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ > Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ > MapIt! http://mapit.de/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: shlomif@xxxxxxxxxx A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes what went wrong more quickly.
