Hello.
What license are the pattern images under? Am I allowed to use them royalty free for anything? Do I need to give proper credits to authors of those images?
I am particularly interested in the Granite#1 and Marble#1 images. The reason is this - they are used in a proprietary ICC (Internet Chess Server) client called Blitzin. When I approached the owner of the software about using these images I was given special permission to use them, but only with software that works with their chess server (ICC). This of course gave me the impression that the images belong to them and they are thus able to give me permission to use them. Imagine my surprise when later I found those exact images in GIMP.
So who is the original author of those images? Can I use them freely? Will the blitzin owners need to include notice about the authors? Are they at all allowed to use the images in proprietary software?
Thanks, Alexander Maryanovsky (Jin author - http://www.hightemplar.com/jin/)
