For what it's worth Dia format is already used in other contexts (I believe phpMyAdmin has it as an export format) Similarly I'm not a lawyer but as long as your not using any Dia code I don't see the XML format itself being a problem, after all XML is an open system and you are simply parsing it to extract it's data so as long as you have the appropriate rights for the content of said file and an appropriately licenses XML parser you should be fine Slightly concerned about "greatly inspired by it", be careful that doesn't become "minor copy-paste" or method renaming as that's clearly an issue As ever for actual legal advice find somebody qualified in your jurisdiction to give such advice tl;dr: Just using the format should be fine but it would be good to include an acknowledgement of/link to Dia On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 09:39 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
Hello, Am 21.02.19 um 19:21 schrieb Vahid Bashiri via dia-list:Hi I'd like to use the specific xml format of Dia in my application to store diagrams. Because of the non GNU code I am using, I decided to write my own code similar to Dia which is greatly inspired by it (but not copied). My question is if I use the xml format, will I have a licencing problem. Is the file format licenced GNU too or I can use it in proprietary application?what you are asking is, as far as I see a legal question, which I am not qualified enough to answer. But I doubt very much this could be a problem. However, leaving apart the legal question, this is also a moral question: i.e. will the "Dia community" let me use Dia's XML format in a proprietary product? I interpret that as a question of whether you can write an application that will be interoperable with Dia, which I think should not be met by any resistance from the Dia community: it's good to be interoprable, to be able to exchange data, with 3rd party software. *t _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list gnome org https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.gnome.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fdia-list&data=02%7C01%7C%7C30adeefece5a4de0f83c08d69e27011b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636870287694471874&sdata=Ra0jzIcgl6qzmvicOivvCB8hRcZGzhkx0l7Py0rHJ9Q%3D&reserved=0 FAQ at https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.gnome.org%2FDia%2FFaq&data=02%7C01%7C%7C30adeefece5a4de0f83c08d69e27011b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636870287694481885&sdata=py4zRnNNx18gvf%2FFVaFdJnl3c8sc4YXO4D58ZbjMQsA%3D&reserved=0 Main page at https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.gnome.org%2FDia&data=02%7C01%7C%7C30adeefece5a4de0f83c08d69e27011b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636870287694481885&sdata=LRKkpHAE4utAhXk0LfjOqb2c6PMN3SLRugWvjJfsd1g%3D&reserved=0
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