Re: [Inkscape-devel] Pattern licenses

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:

    I am very surprised to discover that three of the patterns Inkscape has

included in the Fill and Stroke dialog are not public domain.

These are the best I could find, and they are at least compatible with our own GPL for all I know. If you insert such a pattern into your document, it is inserted along with the comment which provides attribution, so I believe the license is satisfied. IANAL, of course.

What about the vector patterns in the same file? There's no special license on it, so one would assume that patterns.svg, as well as markers.svg etc., is covered by GPL as is the whole program. Should we relicense these files?

In any case, if you can replace these bitmaps with comparable public domain ones, please do.