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Re: .sav format [message #52388 is a reply to message #52298]

Mon, 29 January 2007 12:49

JD Smith
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:08:18 -0800, 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.

The license grants "the author of this software, and to all IDL users,
a license to use and redistribute this software in source or binary
form, subject to the following conditions", so they've already given
us the license (restrictive though it may be).

JD

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[Message index]

		.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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