gnupic: Re: [gnupic] COD file format
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] COD file format
From:
Borut Razem ####@####.####
Date:
2 Mar 2007 21:09:11 +0000
Message-Id: <45E89237.3090600@siol.net>
David Barnett wrote:
> ----- 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.
You can try at http://www.bytecraft.com/more_info/codfile_request.
I did some time ago, but unfortunately without success :-( . Probably I
wasn't persistent enough.
Let me know if you will succeed - I'll try again.
You are mixing the license of the software (gplink, gpsim, ...) and the
license of the specification (COD file information), which are two
different things.
Borut
