On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:00:26 +0400 From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Summer of Code: DXF support, and my horrible pessism.
On 7/8/05, Alan Horkan wrote:
Dia already has a library for importing DXF (and there are probably other open source programs with their own custom DXF support and some with more
*cough* dxflib *cough*
That looks somewhat familiar. It is licensed under the GPL.
liberal licensing than others).
So if he chooses to write something new from scratch there is absolutely no point in making it any less than LGPL. I expect the mentors are making sure to keep people on the right track.
generalised and turned into a library that could be shared by Inkscape
and
other applications to share the maintainance burden (or failing that make the new code for Inkscape so that it can be reused by other
applications).
Sure, iirc support for WMF was promised by the same guy.
*cough* libwmf *cough*
That would be pretty sweet alright.
Even if plans change I'm sure there is no shortage of file formats Inkscape would like to support and I'm more optimistic now he will be able to produce something great.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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Here is where I am on the dxf importing so far. A few weeks ago I checked the dxf libraries that are already out there (dime, Qcad (dxflib), blender were specifically mentioned in the proposal) and found all are GPL'd. After a discussion with Jon about licensing I became more aware of the possibility of releasing under several licenses. So I decided to write a dxf importing code using STL containers to hold the various levels of data. I hope that it will be something others can reuse.
I plan to release it at least under the LGPL maybe some other licenses. At lease LGPL.
As far a Dia. I thought about it few days ago but didn't bother to look because I was mostly done with the main parts of dxf reader. After today's posts I looked more closely and it is also GPL'd. Gnuplot will export to dxf so I will check that out in the near future.
BTW what is libwmf?
Matt