10 hours ago
The beauty of Open Source is that you don't have to ask permission to take the initiative and make changes... other than preventing the modified script from conflicting with the original, just changing the names inside.
At the beginning of the sad days of covid I thought about making Polisched Plastic Fu work on Gimp 2.99.3, and now it's called Polished Plastic Fun, and it has grown, now I have to make it slim down to remove what is done with some plug-ins that they are no longer connected to Script-fu.
I said to myself: I'll make it work then we'll see...
Another great thing about Open Source is that you don't have to deal with something when it's not a day: today isn't working or some bug is complicating your life? You can wait another day, no one will scold you.
Now we have sourceforge, github, gitlab, codeberg, blogs, forums... so there's no shortage of ways to publish/store/share your scripts... just search and you'll find it.
The scripts are mostly text files, apart from the LinuxBeaver GEGLs, which however releases the source, so you can read and understand how it works and modify.
I would also like to tell you that Gimp 2.10 will not stop working, and neither will Gimp 2.8, so the only real problem is making them work together, if an old script needs an old environment to work, it is certainly not a problem the program producer who must sell the new version.
I have some appimage, 2.8 (orbital), 2.10 Hybrid, some 2.99.19, 3.0rc1, and I'm slowly fixing the one I like to make it work, but if someone took, modified and redistributed a script that I updated and modified before I wouldn't let them I would definitely file a lawsuit... it's Open Source!
At the beginning of the sad days of covid I thought about making Polisched Plastic Fu work on Gimp 2.99.3, and now it's called Polished Plastic Fun, and it has grown, now I have to make it slim down to remove what is done with some plug-ins that they are no longer connected to Script-fu.
I said to myself: I'll make it work then we'll see...
Another great thing about Open Source is that you don't have to deal with something when it's not a day: today isn't working or some bug is complicating your life? You can wait another day, no one will scold you.
Now we have sourceforge, github, gitlab, codeberg, blogs, forums... so there's no shortage of ways to publish/store/share your scripts... just search and you'll find it.
The scripts are mostly text files, apart from the LinuxBeaver GEGLs, which however releases the source, so you can read and understand how it works and modify.
I would also like to tell you that Gimp 2.10 will not stop working, and neither will Gimp 2.8, so the only real problem is making them work together, if an old script needs an old environment to work, it is certainly not a problem the program producer who must sell the new version.
I have some appimage, 2.8 (orbital), 2.10 Hybrid, some 2.99.19, 3.0rc1, and I'm slowly fixing the one I like to make it work, but if someone took, modified and redistributed a script that I updated and modified before I wouldn't let them I would definitely file a lawsuit... it's Open Source!