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Re: gif license [message #27763 is a reply to message #27667]

Wed, 31 October 2001 08:17

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Steve Smith<steven_smith> (nobody@nowhere.com) writes:

> I am wondering the following: since IDL is an interpretive langauage, i.e. you
> cannot make standalone programs, then any potential user of code you may give
> out would have an IDL license, and presumably would not have the GIF/LZW
> enabled if they had not contacted Unisys and secured a license. So where is
> the problem? It would seem to me that your code would be useless to anyone
> without this license, am I correct? So I don't see how distributing your code
> is a problem (you are NOT distributing the ability to read/write GIF).

I have a feeling this is *exactly* how the Unisys
lawyers view the issue. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. What was that scarcasm thingy again?

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		gif license By: Michael L. Kaiser on Mon, 29 October 2001 12:21
		Re: gif license By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 02 November 2001 07:18
		Re: gif license By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 02 November 2001 07:16
		Re: gif license By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 02 November 2001 07:26
		Re: gif license By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 01 November 2001 21:35
		Re: gif license By: David Fanning on Thu, 01 November 2001 13:53
		Re: gif license By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Thu, 01 November 2001 08:25
		Re: gif license By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 31 October 2001 21:22
		Re: gif license By: Dennis Boccippio on Wed, 31 October 2001 18:46
		Re: gif license By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 October 2001 08:17
		Re: gif license By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Wed, 31 October 2001 07:59

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