That's NOT true per Unisys license and their lawers. If you buy and use a
graphics package and use that in your company Intranet or in another
application, you pay!
You can use a licensed tool like photoshop to generate gif and put those on
your site w/o fee, etc.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: John Zukowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] How to save the entire Frame as a gif or jpeg
> You have to pay Unisys only if you create software that creates GIFs, not
> if you USE software that creates GIFs.
>
> See http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/weekly/aa083099.htm for a
> description if you are confused.
>
> J
>
>
> Thanks for your message at 01:57 PM 9/3/99 -0400, Augusto Sellhorn:
> >John Zukowski wrote:
> > >
> > > Use the RepaintManager to capture an Image of what is on a JComponent.
> > > Use the Acme GIF encoder to go from Image to output stream.
> > >
> > > http://www.acme.com/java/software/Acme.JPM.Encoders.GifEncoder.html
> > >
> > > [There might be something in the Java Media Framework to do this
also.]
> >
> >Maybe a little bit off topic, but does anybody know if it's "legal" to
> >do
> >this ? I remember reading something about Unisys charging people that
> >created
> >gifs with "unlicensed" software. Does an enconder like Acme's violate
> >this ?
> >
> >Augusto
>
>
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