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From: | h.g. muller |
Subject: | Re: [XBoard-devel] SVG version of XBoard pixmaps for chess |
Date: | Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:03:36 +0200 |
I think the legal situation is this:Converting to SVG is a on-trivial task, and therefore doing it earns you copyrights. But the original copyrights continue to apply, as the eventual images look the same.
What is needed for inclusion in XBoard is that you transfer the "translation copyrights" to the FSF, which will then put them under the GPL. But people still won't still be able to use the graphics,even when they comply with the GPL, without permission of the owner of the copyrights holder for the original pieces. GNU has permission to use and distribute these with XBoard, however. (As should be obvious from the fact we already
use them in pixmap form.)
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