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I have a few questions about licensing issues regarding KHOROS:

We (here at NRaD) are funding a contractor to develop some software
that converts in input file of audio data into an output file which is
an "image" of the spectrogram of that data.  Currently, their software
produces a "raw" image file and we use Khoros to convert it to a viff
format before we do further image processing.  We have asked the
contractor to upgrade the software to produce viff files directly.  The
following questions now arise:

1.-  Is the viff specification proprietary or in the public domain?
That is, if the contractor's code produces files which adhere to the
viff specification, is he in violation of your licensing arrangements?

2.-  The current code produces a raw image file.  The easiest way to
convert it to viff format is to use your raw2viff library routine (I
believe it is called lraw2viff.).  If the contractor incorporates your
library routine into his software to perform the desired conversion,
is he in violation of your licensing arrangements?

3.-  The above questions pertain to software developed by the US
government for use only by the US government and its contractors.  This
is case #1.  Now suppose that we release this code to non-government
users (for free).  Does this change the answers?

Keith Bromley 
bromley@nosc.mil



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