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Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such [message #44779 is a reply to message #44694]

Wed, 13 July 2005 18:33

Y.T.
Messages: 25
Registered: December 2004

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Ken Mankoff wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Y.T. wrote:
>>> But I think if you look around
>>> http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/idl/htmlhelp/
>>>
>>> You'll find that almost all the IDL code has been duplicated by
>>> someone else somewhere else. You are probably allowed to use
>>> that.
>>
>> Maybe someone needs to start collecting these things and compile
>> them into a "free idl-alike .pro library". The value of something
>> like GDL would really increase drastically through this.
>
> Umm... did you follow the above link? Doesn't that constitute a
> "collection"?
>

Not in any useful sense -- it's just a bunch of pointers that are not
at all sorted by "public-domain"-vs-"proprietary". I can follow these
links and examine every single library that I find and keep only those
that explicitely state that I'm allowed to use it without a valid RSI
license, but that process would be a lot of work (and would be exactly
what I meant with "collect all these").

And in the end, there's a lot of basic functionality that would
probably barf because it relies on the presence of other routines that
RSI supplied. Which are NOT public-domain.

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		IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: Y.T. on Wed, 06 July 2005 10:12
		Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 14 July 2005 13:12
		Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: m_schellens on Thu, 14 July 2005 12:13
		Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 14 July 2005 10:53
		Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: m_schellens on Thu, 14 July 2005 10:26
		Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 14 July 2005 08:56
		Re: IDL, GDL, copyright, EULAs and such By: Y.T. on Wed, 13 July 2005 18:33

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