Licence for PngSuite?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:42 Wed 05 Jan     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to create new regression test for checking image reader/writer
> behaviour and for this I need some useful PNG images.
> 
> Below are my conversation with the author of PngSuite
> (http://www.schaik.com/pngsuite/pngsuite.html) with his permission to
> use his images in OpenJDK.
> 
> Do you think that this permission allow as to add these images to
> OpenJDK OR at least to IcedTea?
> 

Sounds like there is no issue with including them in IcedTea.

We can't make the decision for OpenJDK.

> Cheers
> Pavel
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Licence for PngSuite?
> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:25:37 -0700
> From: Willem van Schaik <willem at schaik.com>
> To: Pavel Tisnovsky <ptisnovs at redhat.com>
> References: <4D245D00.1010806 at redhat.com>
> 
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> Five or six years ago I had a very similar discussion with "your
> friends" ;-) from Novell/SuSE. They needed to be sure that legally they
> were OK with including PngSuite somewhere in their distro.
> 
> The 'legal' status of PngSuite, if you can even call that, is that
> anybody may use it any way they like. You may include it in any piece of
> software, no matter if that's GPL, freeware or commercial.
> 
> When I created PngSuite at the time, I created every single image from
> scratch. There was nothing used, borrowed, etc. from existing images. I
> did it that way because nothing out there was usable, but the advantage
> is that the end result has no depending copyright issues.
> 
> Let me know if you need anything more official than this.
> 
> See you,
> Willem
> 
> 
> PS. I've been and still am a "RedHat guy" since 1985, when I switched
> from Slackware :). PngSuite was generated on RedHat 3.0.3 and my current
> desktop is CentOS. Laptops are running Fedora and the PVR is MythDora.
> OpenJDK is also close to my heart, having been with Sun Microsystems the
> last 10 years. Mow with Cisco, selling Redhat on UCS.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> > Hi Willem,
> > 
> > I prepare regression tests for OpenJDK including tests which check
> > correct behaviour of image readers and writers. I was looking for some
> > PNG files containing various colour types and various not-so-often used
> > chunks and your PngSuite seems to be one of the best sources (well I
> > missed images containing iTXt chunk which is quite important due to some
> > issues we've found in UTF-8 related code in JDK ;-).
> > 
> > Do you think it is possible to add some of these images to OpenJDK as
> > part of regression test package? I've found you have copyright to it
> > (PngSuite.README) but I am unable to find any licence text (GPLxx is
> > best suited for OpenJDK at this moment).
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Pavel Tisnovsky
> > OpenJDK Team
> > Red Hat, Inc.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Willem van Schaik
> <willem at schaik.com>
> http://www.schaik.com/
> 

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