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hull@ibmb0.cs.uiuc.edu (David Hull) writes:

>greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:

>>Well, for starters, you shouldn't be running AIC-compressed software on a
>>machine without an AutoDoubler license.

>Says who?  As long as I run the AIC program on my licensed machine, I
>ought to be able to run compressed programs wherever I want.  I suppose
>the next thing you'll tell me is that I should only run my C programs
>are on the machine that has my licensed copy of Think C?


Says the licence agreement. (Unfortunately.) Obviously, developers could
use AIC to distribute smaller versions of their programs. I don't know
what Salient/5th has against this, and when I inquired about it they told
me that they're contemplating a developer package for doing just this.

If you have a look at MORE (from Symantec), it has also been compressed
using "VISE(tm)", and AIC can't save anything. By the looks of things,
VISE is doing something similar.

AIC sticks a chunk of code in a compressed application to effect resource
decompression on the fly. This piece of code is copyright and Salient/5th
is legally entitled to licence it as they see fit.

Similar software has been available on the Amiga as freeware for years
(but is much more simple-minded, simply decompressing the whole app into
RAM on startup).

Tonio
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