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Re: idl and licenses [message #41892 is a reply to message #41890]

Fri, 03 December 2004 06:03

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Russ writes:

> but seriously, what i am writing is expected to be used by people in
> industry, civil servants, MPs, public forums etc. I can't really do
> anything dodgy. What I really wanted was to have the code sitting on
> my machine somewhere so i can do the support, others, 'stakeholders'
> could log in to use it. the answers are simple so bandwidth isnt a
> problem. (the code evolves the UK housing stock,
> demolitions/building, double glazing etc etc to see what regulations
> are going to help us meet our emmissions targets - out of interest).

Many people use properly licensed IDL servers to interact
with the public though web pages, etc. I'm no lawyer, but
I'm certain you are breaking no licensing agreement by
doing so. This is what people buy licenses *for*.

And, anyway, IDL licenses seem to look out for themselves
pretty well. I had a conversation a month or so ago with
a scientist from a former world power that is struggling
to pay its scientists a living wage, let alone provide them
with software. These guys are pretty adept, as I understand it,
at getting software at, uh, a steep discount. But they don't
use IDL, and they would like to. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: idl and licenses By: George N. White III on Sun, 05 December 2004 06:38
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		Re: idl and licenses By: rlayberry on Fri, 03 December 2004 03:12
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