[Digikam-users] DNG (was Re: LightZone)

[Gerhard Kulzer]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2008/2/5, Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>:
> >
> > Dnia Tuesday 05 of February 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > >
> > > The Adobe License have been removed in this tarball. Great for an
> > > opensource program !
> > >
> > > Or perhaps i missing something about licensing relevant of my primal
> > > English (:=)))...
> > >
> > > Comments are welcome...
> >
> > Well, chdk is AFAIK Russian software. In Russia copyright laws are
> > slightly different than in the rest of the world (and attitude toward
> > breaking of it).
> 
> 
> right... but GPL is GPL around the world, isn't it ?
> 
> Note: I would prefer if ROTW accepted Russian attitude
> > toward copyrights but I would be *very* careful with including this
> > code.
> 
> 
> I will not include this code. I would take a look how is done the DNG
> converter part (indeep using DNG sdk), and writting a patch around
> libkdcraw.

Gilles, I am not a license lawyer, and i carefully read the Adobe license http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/dng/dng_sdk_eula_win.html
several times over. After all I cannot find any restriction to use this software and to join it with GPL code. 

"Adobe hereby grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free license to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works from, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute and sublicense the Software for any purpose."

The restrictions are the same as GPS restriction: ownership and copyright remain with Adobe.

I cannot find any issue here.

Lets go ahead!

Gerhard

> DNG sdk is require of course for that. This is the problem... For the rest
> of code, no GPL conflict is possible : this will be my code.
> 
> I would to have a license expert here, especially from Debian team. It's is
> possible to use DNG sdk code in a GPL project and to publish it as GPL ?
> Achim, waht do you think about ?
> 
> 
> Maybe some contact with chdk authors?
> 
> 
> sent message yesterday. no response...
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 



-- 
><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·... ><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·...¸ ><((((º>
http://www.gerhard.fr
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20080208/253f8d6f/attachment.sig>