[HN Gopher] Our Paint - A featureless but programmable painting ...
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       Our Paint - A featureless but programmable painting program
        
       Author : ksymph
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2025-10-12 18:54 UTC (6 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wellobserve.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wellobserve.com)
        
       | vintagedave wrote:
       | The site is very slow for me. There's an archive here:
       | https://archive.ph/c7aHC
        
       | nick__m wrote:
       | For a featureless program it appears to be quite featurefull !
       | Opaque and transparencies, at the same time.              Use
       | opaque color for impasto, or glazing over with transparencies,
       | any process, any time.            Different reflectance behaviour
       | for dense/diluted colors, enjoy the hue shifts as you mix.
       | Allow different light source and exposure control of the image.
       | Node-Based Brush Engine       ...
        
       | ravetcofx wrote:
       | > Our Paint is Developed by Wu Yiming and licensed under GNU GPL
       | v3 or later for individuals. For commercial licensing,
       | customization and technical support, contact Yiming for details.
       | 
       | Is that allowed under GPL V3 to limit commercial use?
        
         | pmahoney wrote:
         | If that phrase "for individuals" means "for individuals only",
         | then it isn't GPLv3, but some bespoke non-free license.
         | 
         | My speculation: it was intended to mean: use it under terms of
         | GPLv3 (for commercial purposes or not), OR contact to negotiate
         | different terms.
         | 
         | But there's a built-in assumption that no commercial entity
         | would _want_ to use it under GPLv3 terms.
        
           | binarycrusader wrote:
           | I think it's more subtle than that:
           | 
           | https://web.archive.org/web/20250719210835/https://www.wello.
           | ..
           | 
           | The project is a mix of licenses since it's a mix of
           | components. If I had to guess, they intend source code and
           | maybe the binaries under GPLv3 that they own, fonts under SIL
           | Open Font, but "brushes" and "splash images" under CC_BY_NC,
           | etc. mean they could probably constrain certain uses:
           | Our Paint is a painting application.            Copyright (C)
           | 2022-2025 Wu Yiming            Learn more about LaGUI:
           | https://ChengduLittleA.com/lagui            Support the
           | development: https://patreon.com/ChengduLittleA
           | Our Paint is licensed with GNU GPL v3, and Noto fonts are
           | licensed with SIL Open Font license. You should be able to
           | find details about the license in the source code directory.
           | The splash screen images under Resources are licensed with
           | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC
           | BY-NC 2.0). You can not use these images commercially, but
           | you are free to contact the author for licensing info on
           | other products such as prints.            The brushe files
           | packed with Our Paint distribustion are licensed with
           | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC
           | BY-NC 2.0).
           | 
           | My personal opinion is that if that's what they intended, it
           | seems quite reasonable.
        
       | manoDev wrote:
       | Looks absolutely cool and insane at the same time:
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/TW-JlKTlYoI?si=FtHHR1iesDPJlTMD
        
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