World: r3wp

Imagine tomorrow REBOL  becomes open source (GPL  doesn't means that 
RT will abandon their author rights far of that ...) the Sun retakes 
the code of rebol  (Hum they are not in this mood I know I say Sun 
to not have to say microsoft or APPLE) change the names and the copyrights 
/auythor reference to their own and publish a RAVA (clone of rebol) 
and most of all they patent it forbiding to RT to exploit any more 
their beloved REBOL ... RT to claim his rights and make iprohibitate 
the RAVA will have to make a trail and that 's exactly the weak point 
where the big company thinks they are propotent ... But as far as 
you can prouve the anteriority of your creation and the code retake 
you are ensured to win the trail ... But then it depends how many 
justice action they will intent If the bg company thinks the  technologie 
is prior for his futur incoms they can go very far ...

So to resume GPL is an enclosement for the free software domain creation 
and prevent people to claim the paternity of a freee software that 
not belongs to them ;)

th only person that can split the licence for a project is teh author 
it self and one import thing is to publish the work ... that way 
your GPL  work will gain public notority the date of publication 
into a tiers site like sourceforge or rebol.org can be recieved by 
the court as proof of the anteriority of your work upon the derivation 
;)

for example :

AGG License 


Anti-Grain Geometry is an Open Source, free library. You can use 
this software in any commercial or non-commercial projects, free 
of any charge. However, we encourage you to let us know about your 
projects and applications based on Anti-Grain Geometry.

Below is the complete formal text of the license.

Anti-Grain Geometry - Version 2.0
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Maxim Shemanarev (McSeem)


Permission to copy, use, modify, sell and distribute this software 
is granted provided this copyright notice appears in all copies. 
This software is provided "as is" without express or implied

warranty, and with no claim as to its suitability for any purpose.



Please mention the authors in any work derived from Anti-Grain Geometry.

this means RT have to warn the author before to integrate AGG to 
REBOL this way the AGG author keep the control of his creation and 
can participate to it ...

4) What if I want to take a set of GPLed SVG files and distribute 
them as pre-converted draw-blocks (so RebGUI apps don't need to convert 
icons from SVG to Draw)?  Normally the LGPL force you to keep the 
 original names and author reference but you can warn the author 
and ask them a special permission to not repect this term... But 
then you obviously have to mention it with a text like " Thank to 
the authors of GTK for allowing us to exploit their SVG icon set 
and allow us to repack and interger it to the rebGUI project"

Good  NEWS I just solved the problems with the listview widget and 
0.31 I make some improvements too... REFER TO THE the DOKUWIKI REBOLFRANCE.INFO 
PAGE TO GET THE SOURCE CODE (same version 0.51)

Actually, in this case the SVG is the source and the Draw blocks 
are the "binaries". You can change the file names of the "binaries" 
and distribute the source SVG files in a seperate archive with their 
original file names.

BrianH but the utility and the meanning of SVG is to use text files

BrianH http://www.dobeash.com/files/svg-demo.zip

but I think the best is to make our own svg icon collection using 
InkScape Draw WorkBench

That's why i put "binaries" in quotes before when referring to the 
preconverted draw blocks you mentioned before. Since SVG is text, 
even human-readable (with difficulty at times) the SVG files can 
be considered the source and the draw converter can be considered 
the compiler. Still, I agree that it would be best to make your own 
if you can, since the GPL is really poorly suited as a picture content 
license - they should have tried one of the Creative Commons licenses 
instead.

shadwolf: draw blocks are text files too. more readable than svg, 
too.

From the AGG Group: "Having our own SVG icons is a good idea as we 
don't have to worry about licence / distribution issues and we can 
tweak the generation to make it as AGG compatible as possible. To 
do that we need to settle on *one* tool so as we generate consistent 
SVG code, and we should generate SVG that uses a single unit of measure, 
preferably pixels, as it's a real pain trying to handle multiple 
units of measure within the same file."

shadwolf: Once you've settled on the "best" SVG generation tool to 
use (with feedback from folks here), then create a simple SVG icon 
(a shaded "next" arrow for instance) and post a link to the file. 
I'll have a look at the underlying SVG code it generates and we'll 
see if it's clean enough to use easily. We can then start creating 
more complex icons and improving the SVG renderer as we go. My hope 
is that we will end up with a nice set of REBOL / RebGUI SVG icons 
that are free of any licence / distribution issues.

btw - why do we need to use SVG for icons? Wouldn't draw be sufficient 
for us? Or is it because there are authoring tools out there, which 
you can use to visually produce SVG stuff?

Yes, why SVG? The SVG files are big, compared to draw blocks, and 
far less readable.

exactly ... so it must be because of Cyphre, who did not have enough 
time to produce his dream authoring tool for Rebol :-)

Reasons:

	1) Solid authoring tools
	2) Access to a large number of existing SVG icons (if needed)
	3) The standard for vector graphics
	4) Interoperability

 5) Publicity ("we support SVG icons", as opposed to, "our icons are 
 just REBOL blocks")


If we generate our own content then there is nothing stopping us 
having icons in source form (SVG) *and* pre-compiled form (draw block).

Thanks, I thought so ...

rewrite Inkscape in REBOL. :P

There's probably more windows metafiles floating around than SVG. 
ooh another project for someone :-)

Inkscape will need some icons for its interface.

There was a version of paint.r that output to SVG. I think Jeff did 
it

Don't know inkscape, But I'm on a Draw editor script since yesterday 
;-), but, hey, chhhh...

OK, after looking the inkscape website, don't expect too much of 
my project :-/

didec: don't want to do double work, but I am working on one too, 
specifically for makedoc2 :-)

it wont be particularly complex, just something that allows you to 
draw simple diagrams quickly and copy the draw commands to the clopboard 
for insertion in your doc.

AS far I I done My test InkSCape is the good one ... (but it's SVG 
output can be little bit complicated...) I have tested thegimp sodipodi 
(abandonned) and inkscape . and the more suitable od those 3 is InkScape 
very easy of use portable and full featured :)

inkskape edit very well the set of icons you provided with svg-demo.r 
;)

http://www.inkscape.org/

see screen shots entry in the menu of the inkscape website to have 
a view on what this tool can do for us ;)

It would be good to see more REBOL SVG tools.

I am a bit surprised not to see any DRAW SVG tool yet.... even just 
a small one.

Sure but we are lamers .... sorry ...

My son, who helped with View 1.3 is using Fireworks to create the 
graphics, then a small REBOL script to convert to DRAW format.

Shadwolf... or maybe too sunny and nice outside too, eh?

first we need to learn th SVG format ...

shadwolf - the question is, if AGG is capable enough to allow all 
possible renderings. But let's hope it is. Mozilla foundation is 
going to use Cairo library. Hopefully Maxim will stil improve on 
AGG ...

I told DideC not to go to the beach unless I get to go too.

Maybe your son can help with  the Rebgui project now that 1.3 is 
out?

Carl that's absolutly not the problem here it''s 34°C sunny days 
and I'm plug all the day long to my pc but there so mutch thing to 
do ..

Ashley mentioned he has something small. And Cyphre has too, but 
commercially closed.

Cyphre can't use his code .. but that doesn't mean he can't take 
the knowledge and apply it

Pekr: I know that Cyphre has put a few large city maps into DRAW, 
and they looked pretty good. We just need to get him to tell us more 
about it.

unless there's a non compete clause.

http://www.dobeash.com/files/svg-demo.zipfor Ashley SVG renderer 
drawer script

AShley rocks but inkscape ouput is not supported until now

Ashley promised to add more rocks when we start with small (as in 
features) images and grow.