SA6.0 Patent and Copyright Notice
Andrew Kalinowski
DELORME"
I sort of recall some DeLorme statements about SA working with "NMEA
capable" and "popular" GPS receivers, so I wonder which one is "not
recommended"? Not that I really care, since SA for a Canadian is as useful
as tits on a bull.
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Andrew K.
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TBFisher wrote in message <26wW1.1124$I86.2...@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>...
>This notice is included with SA6.0. If one were
>to build a translator program to allow the translation
>of SA6.0 map data to a format compatible with
>Lowrance's MapCreate program, would this violate
>the patent and/or copyright??
>
>
>Patent and Copyright Notice
>
>Street Atlas USA is a limited field of use license under United States
>Patent law.
>The DeLorme processes for the formatting, storage and retrieval of
>geographic and
>geographically related data are protected by US Patent Numbers 4,972,319
and
>5,030,117.
>Other patents pending. The DeLorme software, data compilations, screen
>displays and
>map printouts are all protected by US and foreign copyright. Purchaser of
>license
>acquires no rights that are not specifically set forth in the License
>Agreement
>included in the documentation. The CD-ROMs remain the property of DeLorme
>and are
>furnished so that the licensee may enjoy these licensed rights.
>
>IMPORTANT FIELD OF USE NOTICE: YOU ARE NOT LICENSED TO USE STREET ATLAS USA
>INTERACTIVELY WITH ANY GPS RECEIVER NOT RECOMMENDED BY DELORME FOR SUCH
USE.
>YOU ARE NOT LICENSED TO ADAPT STREET ATLAS USA OR ANY PART OF THE SYSTEM
FOR
>USE OR RESALE AS EMBEDDED SOFTWARE.
>
>US Government Rights in Commercial Software
>
>Use, duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
>set
>forth in the commercial computer software license agreement under which the
>software
>is delivered by DeLorme and as provided in DFARS 227.7202-1(a) and
>227.7202-3(a) or
>DFARS 227.225-7013 (OCT 1988), as applicable, or FAR 12.212(a), FAR
>52.227-14, or
>FAR 52.227-19, as applicable.
>
>Copyright © 1998 DeLorme. All rights reserved.
>
>
TBFisher
Gerry Goodrich
wrote:
>This notice is included with SA6.0. If one were
>to build a translator program to allow the translation
>of SA6.0 map data to a format compatible with
>Lowrance's MapCreate program, would this violate
>the patent and/or copyright??
The statement isn't exactly clear what files are covered.
It is EXTREEMLY unfortunate the Delorme
- won't design new versions to save in older format. I changed
versions (avoiding the use of the word "upgrade" to SA6 and can no
longer send map files to SA5,4, 3 users.
- Won't provide a standardized import/export format for user generated
information. Draw objects, start, finish and stops. Lat/lon import is
a very bad joke as is object export - almost all meaningful data is
stripped out.
Even the "big bully" MS Word allows you to save in earlier formats and
many interchange formats.
Also, MS doesn't claim patent writes on the words you type!!!!
I respect Delorme's need to protect their intellectual rights but are
very ticked that they continue to prevent users from accessing user
entered data and block sending maps to users of previous versions.
gerry
.......
* It is hard to fit reason into a narrow mind *
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Larry Mitchell
Snds like an opportunity - i.e., Lowrance-vs-Garmin improves the breed
to our benefit, sorta (wanna buy my 6-month-old GIII?). Bet these
policies will change rabbit-quick when alternative s/w shows up. Ozi,
Precision Mapping, GARMIN/Lowrance (??), or newcomer (????)
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Larry Mitchell
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Wolfgang Rupprecht
Larry Mitchell <net...@gte.net> writes:
> Snds like an opportunity - i.e., Lowrance-vs-Garmin improves the breed
> to our benefit, sorta (wanna buy my 6-month-old GIII?). Bet these
> policies will change rabbit-quick when alternative s/w shows up. Ozi,
> Precision Mapping, GARMIN/Lowrance (??), or newcomer (????)
Not only that, but the car-gps guys are busy specifying a
non-vendor-specific format for the map data on CDROM. I think we'll
soon see map-data sold that will be usable by third-party software.
I wonder why Delorme even cares how you use the CDROM. They get the
same money either way.
-wolfgang
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Dale DePriest
<wolf...@dailyplanet.wsrcc.com> writes:
|>
|> Larry Mitchell <net...@gte.net> writes:
|> > Snds like an opportunity - i.e., Lowrance-vs-Garmin improves the breed
|> > to our benefit, sorta (wanna buy my 6-month-old GIII?). Bet these
|> > policies will change rabbit-quick when alternative s/w shows up. Ozi,
|> > Precision Mapping, GARMIN/Lowrance (??), or newcomer (????)
|>
|> Not only that, but the car-gps guys are busy specifying a
|> non-vendor-specific format for the map data on CDROM. I think we'll
|> soon see map-data sold that will be usable by third-party software.
|>
|> I wonder why Delorme even cares how you use the CDROM. They get the
|> same money either way.
Does Delorme include vendor data that points to restaurants and other sites?
This is the reason that they care. Vendors pay to insure that they are
included on the maps. This is also the reason that vendor data will show
up in the G-III+ maps, I suspect.
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