Re: Hexpack

[steve@...]

The Hexpack standard, like Piecepack, is public domain. 

Mr Dietrich has been very kind to grant us a license to use the JCD graphic 
set, so we can move the graphics and change the size slightly to address the 
issues. 

The proprietors of hexpack.org have also been helpful in this regard. 

Time to get back to that graphics program and make some edits. 

Steve Jones
Blue Panther LLC 

Ben Finney writes: 

> Ben Finney <ben+yahoogroups@...> writes: 
>
> > I have one complaint with the Hexpack images: the margin seems too
> > narrow, resulting in a rather small suit graphic in the corners,
> > much like one of the older versions of the (square) JCD standard
> > piecepack. 
> >
> > This was solved in later standard JCD Piecepack graphics simply by
> > increasing the width of the hex margin and hence the size of the
> > suit graphic.
>
> That should read .This was solved in later standard JCD Piecepack
> graphics simply by increasing the width of the tile margin .. since
> the standard JDC Piecepack images are square, not hexagonal. 
>
> > I'd love for the Hexpack images to do the same, to allow for less
> > squinting :-)
>
> This would need to be done by deriving from the existing images.
> Unfortunately I don't see a copyright license on the Hexpack images
> (nor even the JCD Piecepack images from which some Hexpack images are
> derived), so it's not clear how to do so legally. 
>
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