On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bric <bric@...2538...> wrote:
As far as I know this is my original idea, and I'd like to "bequeath" it to Inkscape and other GPL-licensed applications. So, just to be sure no commercial app hijacks this feature (the concept/algorithm) and claims it as its own (and prevents open-source apps from acquiring it), I hereby declare the afore-mentioned feature to be under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, v3, as spelled out by the Free Software Foundation.
Again, this is just in case it hasn't been developed yet, although i'm actually hard-pressed to believe that it doesn't yet exist somewhere, and in case there's a looming threat of some commercial-venture grabbing the feature before it gets integrated into some GPL'ed app (hopefully into Inkscape)
Oh boy! Software licenses apply to copyrighted code implementations, not to ideas for features... Only a software patent would restrict the implementability of an idea. And I don't think it's wise to prohibit someone to implement something.
Felipe