gnupic: Re: [gnupic] COD file format
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] COD file format
From:
"David Barnett" ####@####.####
Date:
2 Mar 2007 18:30:08 +0000
Message-Id: <0ac901c75cf8$74a3dfd0$2001a8c0@barnett2>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Dattalo" ####@####.####
To: ####@####.####
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gnupic] COD file format
> David Barnett wrote:
>> Apparently the COD file format is proprietary ByteCraft information, but
>> gputils uses the COD format. Did we request information from ByteCraft,
>> reverse engineer the format, or something else? I can't see how
>> ByteCraft would release proprietary information to us since the source
>> code would be pretty revealing.
>>
>> David
>>
> Hi David,
>
> Several years ago when I added COD format support to gpasm, I sought and
> obtained permission from Walter Banks to use ByteCraft's proprietary COD
> format.
>
> Scott
>
Interesting. Did they provide any information or did you discover that
yourself? Did they restrict how you could use/share that information? It
seems like giving permission to use a proprietary format in GPL'd software
is effectively open-sourcing it. I don't understand how it can still be
proprietary.
David
