thanks for the additional information that fill in gaps regarding my understanding of the gpl license. yes, this helps tremendously.
dwain
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:38 AM C R <cajhne@...400...> wrote:
Regarding :
think about what recently happened with the request for assistance to take
inkscape and produce a proprietary software program based on the open source code produced by the programmers that have dedicated their lives to produce and continue to make better software that is freely given. i saw the possibility of losing inkscape and the years of hard, dedicated work in a flash.
You will be happy to know that the license which Inkscape is provided under prevents this from happening. A company cannot legally release a proprietary version of Inkscape. Period.
The worst they could do is use their own proprietary code in Inkscape internally within their own company, but as soon as they want to sell it or distribute it to the pu lic, they MUST provide the source code for it, and it must be provided under the same GPL as Inkscape proper. They would be legally liable for damages to the Inkscape project should they fail to comply with the GPL.
This effectively protects the work of everyone who contributed to make Inkscape free for everyone, so the only thing that could kill it is if everyone loses interest in developing Inkscape... forever. :)
This is a very unlikely scenario, so I wouldn't lose sleep over it. ;)
Hope it helps! -C
but back to the main point of integrating git revisioning with inkscape. i too began naming files in a dated folder using year-month-date-file name. as a "university" trained artist (i was a photographer for 12 years and have worked in broadcast and print [magazines and newspapers] before returning to school), i learned to ask, "what if i did this instead". when you work in analog, you must start over; when you work in digital, you do a "file save as", add a letter or number or whatever your naming convention is and save to your chosen folder. all of your versions are side by side on *your *hard drive on *your *computer and you can back it up to whatever media you choose and you don't have to be concerned about not having direct access to your images.
that said, my time is up. i thank you for yours.
good luck resolving the auto save question. i think it's a wonderful idea. whether or not you devels institute it as default or not.
cheers
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:01 PM Chris Tooley <euxneks@...400...> wrote:
Regarding specifically:
The second thing that falls on my mind is making directories named by
dates. For example: 04-12-2018, 05-12-2018 etc. Or maybe even "/home/$USER/selected_directory/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DATE/filename*.svg". At times I did crave for being able to go back in time with finding some WIP versions of a file...
This sounds like the perfect reason to use a versioning tool like git. Perhaps a future project is integrating git revisioning with inkscape? _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
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