However, I seem also to recall that some of the pattern files in 0.56 were, um, questionably appropriated from other sources (including Adobe). I think the long and the short is that we don't really know where they came from or who (if anyone) holds a copyright interest in them.
Should they really be distributed along with GIMP then? This could be a horrible disservice to someone creating art using GIMP and later finding out that his works contain copyrighted material owned by someone else.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 15:07 7/21/2002 -0500, Kelly Martin wrote:
> <http://cvs.gnome.org> seems to imply that somebody called sopwith > has uploaded these two files to the CVS-tree gimp-data-min. > > However, sopwith appears all over these directories, both for changes > made by <mailto:matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and by > <mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxx>.
"sopwith" (Elliot Lee) made the original checkin of the current CVS tree, so a Really Old file checked in by sopwith probably means a file introduced to the GIMP prior to whenever the prior CVS repository went byebye (1998 sometime, I think). I think, but am not entirely sure, that the two patterns being referenced were part of 0.56, which would mean they trace back to S&P. However, I seem also to recall that some of the pattern files in 0.56 were, um, questionably appropriated from other sources (including Adobe). I think the long and the short is that we don't really know where they came from or who (if anyone) holds a copyright interest in them.
Kelly
