Wow, in few words Anna - yes you can produce content using Gimp, and you can use then your product without any restriction - you can sell your artwork, you can use your artwork as part of other commercial products. 2014-06-01 2:48 GMT+03:00 Christopher Curtis <ccurtis0@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Michael Henning < > drawoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:06 AM, C R <cajhne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Applied to GIMP, this essentially means that as long as you own the (c) > to > > > the materials used in your logo/image, your work is protected under the > > > GPLv3 licence, when output by GIMP. > > > > The clause you point out is specifically for programs that include > > GPL'ed content in their output. It does not apply for gimp. If you own > > the photos you started with, then you own the output. > > > > (IANAL, and the above is not legal advice.) > > > > I'm going to assume that you are also not a native English speaker. You > appear to be interpreting the word "protected" to mean "covered". This was > not the author's intent, as evidenced by the later statement: > > To say the output can not be used for > > sale or other business purposes would be discrimination, and would > violate > > the very idea of FOSS. > > > GPL compilers can produce executables that are not GPL, and GPL image > editors can produce images that are not GPL. > > GPLv3 creates ambiguity in that it implies that programs that are covered > by the GPL can produce output that is also covered by the GPL. The answer > to the question of then that can happen comes from the GPL FAQ: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL > > The answer is "Only when the program copies part of itself into the > output." This is still vague, so we can go to a better question by assuming > the opposite intent: > > "Is there some way that I can GPL the output people get from use of my > program? [...]" > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput > > Here, the answer is: > > "In general this is legally impossible; [...]" > > So, to be succinct, the output of Free Software, even GPLv3 Free Software, > is not covered by the GPL, per the GPL FAQ. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
