Re: MacShrinkit

[Streaming Wizard <dzinkin2@rochester.rr.com>]

In article <990063648.3b032c20639b5@public.webmail.cotse.com>,
 penman@cotse.com wrote:

> Hehehe, I forgot about that, QC--thanks!
> 
> For those of you who don't know the refernce, Shrinkit is based on
> an alogrythm named, using the intials of it's developers, LZH.
> Unisys now owns the copyrights to that alogrythm, and now charges
> big bucks for it's use.  We can still distribute current versions
> of Shrinkit and Shrink II (as well as the AppleWorks based utilities
> developed by Doug Gum which are now freeare) since they were
> developed PRIOR to Unisys deciding to enforce their rights.  Any
> attempt to come up with a new product now, without their
> permission - and they've stated publically they want their
> royalities - would be in direct violation of their express
> wishes. Even Ruby should be able to apply his own logic to
> THIS one.  So--if you all want a version of Shrinkit that'll run
> on a Mac, you're going to have to go over to Sheppy's and get
> it.  :)
> 
> Penman

I normally just lurk here, but as someone who's also been looking for a 
Mac version of ShrinkIt, I'm curious: does this mean that if, for 
example, Shrink II doesn't run under Mac OS X, it couldn't be revised or 
updated?  I imagine that feature upgrades would result in a "new" 
program for which Unisys would want royalties, but would bug fixes 
and/or compatibility updates qualify as such as well?

 -- David