Although what you say is true concerning the source distribution of
the IPF library, the old (and bad) license still applies to the KF
software and firmware and binary IPF library distribution. And by the
definition of derivative works in it, I am not allowed to convert any
images in it with a non-SPS decoder implementation.
In order to clear this up, the KF software license (or at least the
section defining derivative works) would need to be revised.
There is also my concern about institutional use, which still stands.
--Dave
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On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:44 PM, "Christian Bartsch | KryoFlux Ltd."
<cb at kryoflux.com> wrote:
So you're making the claim that the file
formats are fully open,
fully documented, and anyone can extract the data at any time,
regardless of the status of KryoFlux Ltd?
Hi Dave,
yes - that was the intention of putting the source up there. The old licence will be
tidied up more and more, but again, to make something available now, the IPF source was
released with a very short and permissive licence.
I would also like to point out that there's a very informative third-party website
around that's run by Jean Louis-Guerin. He's helping with seeing things from the
user side. You tend to become blind for the obvious when you do things for a long time.
http://info-coach.fr/atari/hardware/devices/kryoflux.php
There's much free info there, and it also has another document on the STREAM format
produced by KryoFlux. Someone mentioned he'd regard the file format as documentation
(which would then be covered by the licence), so here's an independent source:
http://info-coach.fr/atari/hardware/devices/kryoflux/kryoflux_stream_protoc…
You might want to take note of the fact that this is independent stuff and we've
encouraged Jean to release whatever he wants to release.