[News] Serious allegations about H&P | ANN.lu |
Posted on 08-Nov-2001 14:17 GMT by Christian Kemp | 164 comments View flat View list |
Amigo follows up on serious allegations about H&P and says: "I also just asked Unisys as it says here, and am waiting for a reply. If true, H&P could probably be forced to close."
[ If H&P indeed didn't pay royalties for Unisys' GIF algorithm, they might not be forced to close per se, but if this is indeed true, and Unisys decides to sue, they might have to pay some serious fines. Also note that while this is not in unmoderated, it's highly speculative, unconfirmed and generally should be taken with the usual grain of salt - CK ]
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Posted by janne on 09-Nov-2001 01:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 39 (Johan Rönnblom): AmiTCP is based on a (what's now called) Open source (well BSD?) TCP/IP Stack, who say's
he who orginally made AmiTCP that he had the right to close-source it again?
(not saying that it was open-source but...)
have the orginal author of AmiTCP actually expressed any interest in developing it
further? he sure is quiet for someone that apparently has been shafted, why hasn't he
sued H&P then, cuuld it be because he doesn't have a case?.
regarding the GIF dispute... if it's the cloanto gif.datatype this is not a violation
of the unisys license since it stated (when the gif.datatype was released) that
public domain versions did not require a license and the cloanto gif.datatype was released
as a public domain addidition (I think the personal_gif_io.library was stated as being licensed)
has vapor paid Unisys the license for using GIF/LZW code in their imagedecoders? |
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