[Bf-committers] Windows Explorer thumbnails for 2.5

[Campbell Barton]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Tom Edwards <contact at steamreview.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone, here's a small project I just completed:
> http://steamreview.org/external/blender/BlendThumb.zip
>
> It's a thumbnail handler for Windows 7 and Vista that extracts the
> .blend thumbnails generated by Blender 2.5 for display in Explorer. It's
> feature complete (including compressed blend support), but there are two
> niggles left before it's final:
>
> - I haven't actually tested it on Vista. Feedback appreciated!
>
> - I'm unclear on licensing. I'd like it to be GPL but there are two
> problems: firstly I'm using the Windows API, and secondly the code is
> based on a sample thumb handler provided in the Windows SDK. I've
> replaced all of the meat, but a lot of the supporting COM guff is the
> same as in the sample because it's so simple that I can't see any other
> way of doing what it does. Does anyone have experience of what happens
> in situations like this?
>
> Thanks!

Re: GPL, Lots of opensource apps use the Windows API, there shouldn't
be any problems releasing this as GPL unless you copied someone elses
non-GPL code it should not be a problem.

IANAL: If the sample code doesn't have a license I would consider it
to be reference/documentation, after all MS cant expect to own part of
every app that uses their thumbnail example reference as a basis.

So I think its safe to release as GPL2 & eventually commit to blender/trunk.

-- 
- Campbell