Re: TkMan is now under Artistic Licence

2000-07-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:19:30PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > http://tkman.sourceforge.net/ > > Need I say more? Someone's already packaging it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

TkMan is now under Artistic Licence

2000-07-13 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
http://tkman.sourceforge.net/ Need I say more? -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * U of Jyväskylä * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/ * * "STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW !!" --- "if i was twice the man i could be, i'd still be hal

TkMan is now under Artistic Licence

2000-07-13 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
http://tkman.sourceforge.net/ Need I say more? -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * U of Jyväskylä * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/ * * "STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW !!" --- "if i was twice the man i could be, i'd still be ha

Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???

2000-07-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Format distributed is *NOT* random gif that simply happened to be > compressed LZW. Format distributed is LZWed gif. > Mere existence of nonLZW gifs doesn't make any difference to FACT that, > due to patent problems, one can't modify LZW gifs. T

Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???

2000-07-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Format distributed is *NOT* random gif that simply happened to be > compressed LZW. Format distributed is LZWed gif. > Mere existence of nonLZW gifs doesn't make any difference to FACT that, > due to patent problems, one can't modify LZW gifs.

Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???

2000-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I will quote GPL again. Qutoing more exact would be more usefull. > To prevent this, we have made it clear that any > patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. This is the preamble. Where do you find it in the "prec

Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???

2000-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > But you CAN modify GIFs, you just cannot use LZW compression on the > > result. > > These images are INTENDED to be COMPRESSED. And, where is the problem? You can load them in a hex-editor and modify whatever you want. You can get something lik

Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???

2000-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I will quote GPL again. Qutoing more exact would be more usefull. > To prevent this, we have made it clear that any > patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. This is the preamble. Where do you find it in the "pre

Re: Are GPLed .gifs legal at all ???

2000-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > But you CAN modify GIFs, you just cannot use LZW compression on the > > result. > > These images are INTENDED to be COMPRESSED. And, where is the problem? You can load them in a hex-editor and modify whatever you want. You can get something li