Imgkap - kap File Converter Tool

[leamas]

Well, without some statement from the original author this is not open source or public domain so it cannot be officially packaged. So, no hope unless MdJ gets in touch...

That said, thanks for clarification!

[cagney]

Originally Posted by leamas

Well, without some statement from the original author this is not open source or public domain so it cannot be officially packaged. So, no hope unless MdJ gets in touch...

That said, thanks for clarification!

Have you tried the email address mentioned in one of his posts ->
http://http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f134/imgkap-kap-file-converter-tool-56600.html#post641025?

[leamas]

No, will do. Thanks for pointer!

--alec

[MdJ]

hello,


I have questions about imgkap by email.


imgkap is totaly free, all functions, part of code, ideas and others are free.



Thanks,

MdJ

[leamas]

Originally Posted by MdJ

hello,


I have questions about imgkap by email.


imgkap is totaly free, all functions, part of code, ideas and others are free.


MdJ

Yes. Unfortunately, from a legal point of view this is not clear enough. The simplest way to resolve the ambiguity of your statement is if you could confirm that your software is in public domain -- this is a well.defined set of conditions which covers your statement if understand it correct.

I could expand on the problems of your statement, but I'm certainly no lawyer...

Cheers!
--alec

[MdJ]

Sorry
My code is mine to the writing, to the reading it is already no longer mine
And my choice is not to hide my code, nor to ask for the money

I would not sign for it to be public, because it is conversely the public who must say that this code is also his

Yours truly
MdJ

[rgleason]

It is a puzzle:

My code is mine to the writing,

MdJ is the author.

to the reading it is already no longer mine
And my choice is not to hide my code, nor to ask for the money

The code can be read by the public and MdJ says it is no longer his code for reading. MdJ does not want to hide it and is not asking for money.


That all seems ok to me, but this one is somewhat different.

I would not sign for it to be public, because it is conversely the public who must say that this code is also his

So he is suggesting that the public must claim that the code is public?

[fgd3]

It seems pretty clear he doesn't understand the legal meaning of "public domain" in the US. It seems pretty clear that his intention is to allow his code to be used freely by anyone. It sounds to me like that meets the definition of public domain.


Fabbian

[MdJ]

Hello,


Following the private exchange with Alec to resolve this issue and after reading https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-di...-public-domain

I agree to put the open source code, as proposed by Alec.

In order to clarify the interest of imgkap, the code contains 2 most important parts:

Encoding and decoding the kap format, with a recursive function for encoding

Color reduction, with optimized color histogram and color reduction algorithm by calculating the distance between colors in the RGB cube. This last algorithm is perfectible, but it is already at the level of the best, photoshop, gimp ... being much faster.

MdJ

[MdJ]

A hello to HappySeagull, cagney and especially nohal
Thank you

[leamas]

Hi M'dJ


So, after some messaging you have have approved this patch [attached below]. This effectively makes imgkap open source software distributed under a GPL-3+ license. If you don't have any comments on it I will interpret it as an approval.


Sorry to bring the patch as a MS-word document, but the forum software given me no better options given the 1.5K size of the patch. A temporary link is at https://paste.fedoraproject.org/past...KspesHUutyPa4Q


Cheers!


gpl.patch.doc

[leamas]

Blacklisted?


Checking if I can submit anything here (if moderated, please disregard and throw).

[leamas]

New attempt:


Hi M'dJ



So, after some private messaging you have approved the enclosed patch which effectively makes imgkap open source software distributed using a GPL-3+ license. This is great and should resolve any legal issues with imgkap.

Sorry to bring the patch as a MS-Word document, but the forum software gives me no better options given the 1.5K size of the patch.

If there is no objections or other input on this I will eventually make a PR against Pavel's github repo.


gpl.patch.doc


EDIT: links are moderated, a regular patch link is at h.t.t.p.s //paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/96x40cfJKspesHUutyPa4Q (sane link waiting for approval)


EDIT2: This became messy, I thought my first post was lost when it was moderated. Sorry for three messages instead of one

[leamas]

A temporary copy of the patch is at https://paste.fedoraproject.org/past...KspesHUutyPa4Q (Separate post, are links moderated?)

[rgleason]

A big thank you goes to MjD!


Thank you.