RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] GPL for designs?

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

For the time being, the 'non-free' categorization is right. Parts of the
source code have not yet be made open, and there is an issue over the
example graphic designs. Obviously we hope to make all the necessary
code GPL so it can be properly classed as free.

As for the graphics I'm not sure GPL is even appropriate for stuff like
this (and it's even more difficult to see how it's relevant for things
like demo movies).  We have agreements with the authors of the example
designs to let us include their work, and for this work to be used as
clipart, but we do not have a GPL license agreement with many, if any,
of the creators of our example graphics.

So the question is what would be required in order to be classified as
free? And thinking about it, the same point applies to documentation,
(e.g. help), demo movies as well as the example graphic designs.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joachim Breitner
> Sent: 26 March 2006 23:09
> To: Alex Bligh
> Cc: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] GPL for designs?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 26.03.2006, 22:02 +0100 schrieb Alex Bligh:
> > That's a question only Xara can answer, but the gist of 
> what was said 
> > was "a few months". My suggestion would be to get the package going 
> > for now, then move it to main when possible (obviously the CDraw 
> > situation prevents that right now & the Xara guys are aware 
> of that).
> 
> Ok, several months are a long time (unless you are talking 
> about Debian releases, of course :-))
> 
> I think I will upload it to non-free. It should be fine there for now.
> This should however not prevent anyone from pushing the 
> release of CDraw. XaraLX is _not_ really Free Software if an 
> integral part is not.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
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