tristanj

Rick, Do you mean a bad idea in terms of software engineering? I'd like - this is just brainstorming as I'm very busy as it is - to change some of the key assignments, make modifications to the layers, give it a flashier name, maybe simplifying some aspects and adding more web-images type functionality. I do understand that you may prefer people not to 'take' your work, even if it may be legally possible. Please think of this as a polite query

Hey Rick, Seeing a lawyer about this kind of thing is always a good idea. I'm not asking for legal advice, merely about the intent of the licence. I should mention that I don't live in the US, and naturally laws differ. My understanding is that the MIT license has "No limits on rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and / or sell copies of the software". I was hoping to get some confirmation of this from the people who are, by default, the copyright owners of the software. Do you allow for derived commercial versions to be made, or not?

Hi, Firstly let me say thank you for the great work you guys have done with paint.net. Anyway, I'm a bit confused by the license that you use. Is someone allowed to take the source code of paint.net, make changes, and then sell the resulting version? The license says "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." Does this mean that derived versions must also be released under the (MIT) license that paint.net uses? Or does it just mean that one must merely attribute the original authors, perhaps in an about box, and that no other requirements are made on the derived version itself?