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Re: .sav format [message #52371 is a reply to message #52298]

Tue, 30 January 2007 07:36

Paolo Grigis
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Registered: December 2003

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mgalloy@gmail.com wrote:
> Interesting. More poking around at Craig's site, reveals the following
> license for CMSVLIB:
>
> http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/LICENSE.RSI
>
> In particular, note point 5:
>
> ; 5. Allowed use of this software is limited to reading and writing
> ; IDL variable related portions of IDL Save files. It may not be
> ; used as a basis for reverse engineering, or otherwise
> ; accessing any other portions of an IDL save file, including but
> ; not limited to, those portions that encode executable IDL
> programs.
> ; Such use is in violation of the IDL EULA, and will be prosecuted
> ; to the fullest extent possible by Research Systems, Inc. It is
> ; permissible to read such sections of an IDL save file for the
> ; sole purpose of transferring it without examination or
> interpretation
> ; to another save file.
>
> So it appears you would need a similar license from ITTVIS for
> examining data .sav files (i.e. directly examining, there is an
> IDL_Savefile class in IDL 6.1 that can do a lot of this for data .sav
> files anyway) and it is strictly forbidden to examine code .sav files.

Do we also need a license for doing science? After all we are trying
to reverse-engineer the universe... let's hope the copyright expired
100 years after Galileo's death ;-)

Ciao,
Paolo

>
> Mike
> --
> www.michaelgalloy.com
>

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		.sav format By: ChristopherFlorio on Mon, 29 January 2007 04:50
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Tue, 30 January 2007 09:58
		Re: .sav format By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 30 January 2007 09:40
		Re: .sav format By: Paolo Grigis on Tue, 30 January 2007 07:36
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Tue, 30 January 2007 05:21
		Re: .sav format By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 29 January 2007 13:01
		Re: .sav format By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 03 February 2007 23:04
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Mon, 29 January 2007 12:49
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Wed, 07 February 2007 05:10
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Tue, 06 February 2007 15:45
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Tue, 06 February 2007 15:44
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Tue, 06 February 2007 12:00
		Re: .sav format By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 11 February 2007 13:53
		Re: .sav format By: Guillermo on Tue, 06 February 2007 11:04
		Re: .sav format By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 February 2007 07:42
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Mon, 05 February 2007 15:02
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Mon, 05 February 2007 12:46
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Mon, 05 February 2007 10:27
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Mon, 05 February 2007 09:58
		Re: .sav format By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 11 February 2007 13:47

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