Re: [Gimp-developer] publication permission

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Michael Natterer  wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 09:18 -0400, Christopher Whittum wrote:
> > Hello.  I am writing a book on open source educational software
> > (Energize Education Through Open Source).  In this book, I discuss
> > GIMP.  I would like to obtain your permission to  include a screen
> > shot of GIMP to accompany my abstract.
>
> My guts feeling is that you can use screenshots of GIMP for whatever
> purpose, and of course we have no problem with promoting GIMP in
> educational literature, but IANAL, so I'm CCing gimp-developer-list
> for the record, and to maybe get you a more educated response on the
> issue.

IANAL too, but since there's no trademark on GIMP, people can do as they please.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org