On Thu, 21 May 1998, Dave Reed wrote:
> The following was posted by someone else on this list a few weeks ago:
> You'll have to get the source and compile it your self. Due to some
> NDA's no one is allowed to distribute binaries that have the ability to
> show avi's or mov's. In fact you just get the .o's for linking when
> compiling it your self. Goto
> http://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/xanim/home.html, you should find all
> you need there.
This statement is not true, at least the part about not distributing
binaries. I built an RPM with full support for all the different
animation types, and I asked Mark Podlipec, the author of xanim, for
permission to distribute it. Specifically, I wanted to distribute the
binary, the man page, and a little other documentation. Here is some of
what he told me:
It is legal to distribute the precompiled XAnim executable with the
decompression modules linked in for non-commercial use.
There is a legal nitpick with distribution of the cinepak .o file by
itself (i.e. not compiled inside of xanim). While I'm allowed to
distribute, I can't grant others the right to distribute it.
Mark assured me that distributing the binary with everything built-in was
okay. Just to be safe I included with my RPM the licensing information
for the various animations that are supported.
ftp://freebie.engin.umich.edu/pub/tmp/xanim-27070xl-1.i386.rpm
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Greg Fall
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http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~gmfall
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