Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!eos!barry
From: barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GIF format!!!
Message-ID: <602@eos.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 15:52:34 GMT
References: <8804221401.aa03514@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Organization: QQQCLC
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In article <8804221401.aa03514@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
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|>GET A GIF-FORMAT READER FOR THE APPLE //'S AND POST IT HERE
|
|If Compu$serv 'owns' GIF, then (alas) it is their copyright, and I
|believe it is their policy that subscribers DO NOT have the right to
|reproduce and distribute Compu$erve copyright software (even though
|the fee paid Compu$erve to use their service is the only "charge" for
|obtaining a copy of the program directly from the service.

	The GIF utilities I got from Compu$erve (Amiga versions) are
described in their docs as "freely reditributable". You're right in
theory, no doubt, but I don't think Compu$erve is trying to restrict
these programs.

						Kayembee