Re: Dia xml format



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
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