GIMP brushes

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I was looking around for GIMP brushes. And I found some. But I didn't
download them. I was afraid to. Because it said that they were
converted from Photoshop. So I was wondering if it is illegal to
download them and use them.

And another question of mine is. What GIMP brushes are illegal to use?
So I know not to use them.

[Tor Lillqvist]

> I was looking around for GIMP brushes. And I found some. But I didn't
> download them. I was afraid to. Because it said that they were
> converted from Photoshop. So I was wondering if it is illegal to
> download them and use them.

That depends on the license of the original works (brushes). If
somebody has created some Photoshop brushes and made them available
for anybody to download without restriction, they hardly would object
if somebody else then converts the brushes to GIMP's format and
redistributes them. But if the brushes are (part of) a commercially
licensed product, then it very probably is illegal to redistribute
them even in their original form.

--tml