Good morning guys, it is 7:44 in the morning in Poland. I highly apreciate your comments and help. Since I am thinking about starting my own business in a year or two- I need to finish project firts, I am also thinking if you are aware of any service with pics for commercial use and by commercial use I mean : website and catalogue that would be printed in maaany opies, I guess finally around thousands of copies ? Best regards and have a great weekend,we have a great sunny day here !! Anna Alia Algawam Project Manager Blue Green Tour sp. z o.o. Chmielna 11, 1st. floor 00-021 Warsaw Office : +48226572279 Fax. : +48226927462 Mobile : +48 696434645 E-mail : alia.algawam@xxxxxxxxx General Inquiry : bgtour@xxxxxxxxx Skype : Blue.Green.Tour Dnia 9 czerwiec 2014 o 03:15 SorinN <nemes.sorin@xxxxxxxxx> napisał(a): > 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 > <mailto:ccurtis0@xxxxxxxxx> >: > > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Michael Henning < > > > drawoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:drawoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:06 AM, C R < cajhne@xxxxxxxxx > > > <mailto: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 > > <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 > > <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 > > <mailto:gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx> > > List membership: > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > > <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list> > > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > > <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
