Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:22 PM 12/4/2001 +0100, Raphael Quinet wrote:
> - XCF is designed for internal use
> by the Gimp while one is editing an
>   image but it is not supposed to be used for the "final"
> images to be
>   distributed to other people.  Other (standard) formats such
> as PNG or
>   JPEG should be used if one wants to share and image with
> others.  So
>   no one should use XCF as a file exchange format (except among
> Gimp
>   users, maybe).

        

Personally,
I think that's a short sighted decision (see my previous mail for the
reasons), but it's your call - not mine!   And if that's the
general opinion (and you folks can live with it), then I'll stop work on
the XCF coder.  Should I remove it, since you feel it might cause
confusion??


> - This may be controversial, but
> ImageMagick has a BSD-style license
>   that includes the "advertising clause".

        

ImageMagick
has NO license.  The only thing we say is:

ImageMagick is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization. ImageMagick is available for free, may be used to support both open and proprietary applications, and may be redistributed without fee.

  This is not compatible with
  the GPL and this means that any code contributed to ImageMagick
and
  any improvements that could be done in that code cannot be
re-used
  later in the Gimp (maybe in a plug-in, but not in the core).

        

I would
not expect that any of the code that is written to support XCF in
ImageMagick would make it way back into Gimp (since it's really us trying
to support things you already do).  HOWEVER, you are welcome to take
ANY code from ImageMagick and incorporate it into the Gimp to your
heart's content!


Leonard