ÚÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÂÄ ÂÄÂÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ÚÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ ÃÄÄ ÚÄÂÂÄ¿ ÂÂÄÄ¿ ÚÂÄÄ¿ ÚÄÂÂÄ¿  Â ÚÂÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³³ ³ÃÄ ÀÁÄ¿ ³³ ÀÄÄ´³ ³³ ³ ÀÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÁÄÁ ÁÄÁ ÁÁ ÁÁÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÁÙ ÁÁ ÁÁ o ÀÁÄÄÙ CopyRight (C) 1991-92 by Max Bernard & Dave Navarro, Jr. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- License Agreement ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GIFtest is Copyrighted by Max Bernard and Dave Navarro, Jr. as of April 1991 and is covered by US and International Copyright laws. The authors reserve all rights. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting with version 2.0, GIFtest is now Shareware, and no longer freeware. This is to help offset the cost of development for GIFtest. You are granted a limited license to use GIFtest for a thirty (30) day period for the purpose of evaluating it for your own use. After thirty days, you are required to either register GIFtest or stop using it. To continue using it is a violation of copyright laws and just not a nice thing to do.. The Shareware version of GIFtest is NOT crippled in any way. There are no missing features or timers. The only differences between the registered and unregistered versions of GIFtest are, the Shareware version displays my name, address and the requested registration fee at the end of the help screen, and their is a 2 second delay after each use and "UNREGISTERED version" is displayed. This does not cripple the program, or make it unusable, it's just annoying and acts as "incentive" for registering GIFtest. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered owners will also receive, free of charge with their order the following ulities designed to work with GIFtest: GIFbrand: Add a description of up to 5 lines by 40 charactors to a GIF file. GIFtest will extract these descriptions and "replace" any description typed by a user on ProDoor and PCBoard systems. Descriptions can also be "encrypted" so that they cannot be altered as a measure of security for BBSs that create original scans. GIFbrand also stores the original 32bit CRC in the file to help in duplication prevention on BBSs when the only change in a GIF is the addition on a description or comment. GIFread: Read and display any description that has been branded into a GIF file and display it along with a complete analasys of the GIF. Includes support for GIF89a text comment fields. GIFstats: Statistics program that analyses your GIFLOG and displays a summary of all the information contained. SysOps can redirect the output to a file for use as bulletins on their systems. GIFstrip: Strips comments, and "extension" headers from GIF files to reduce their size. Including GIFLITE header, secondary images (multiple image GIFs), GIFbrand descriptions and text comments. Registered owners are also eligible for a discount on GIFLab and GIFLab Lite, a "graphical" version of GIFtest for sysops that displays what it is doing to both the local screen and on the remote users screen. Contact the author for more information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BBS Distribution ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BBSs are granted a limited license to distribute GIFtest in a compressed format. The distributing BBS is not limited to the type of compression method used for distribution. However, the BBS must follow the following guidelines: 1. If GIFtest is distributed in a ".ZIP" file, the BBS must do it's best to preserve the "AV" that GIFtest was compressed with by the author. If a BBS wishes to have GIFtest sent to them directly from the author, please contact the author and a copy will be sent either by US Mail, or uploaded directly to the BBS. The sole exception to distribution of GIFtest without the security "AV" placed by the author is where a BBS uses a program to validate their uploads that, as a part of validation, reZIP's the file for maximum compression (not necessary since the distribution archive from the author is created with maximum compression enabled). 2. No BBS may, in re-ZIPing GIFtest, add to the ".ZIP" their own "AV" which does not belong to the author. 3. No BBS is authorized to add any files to the archive which are not part of the original GIFtest archive as distributed by the author. The sole exception is where a BBS adds an ASCII text file (containing no ANSI codes of any type) as an advertisement, and the filename for the file has not and/or will not change, and the BBS does not "cycle" filenames for the purpose of "fooling" upload checking programs from other BBSs which remove such advertisements. 4. No user may be charged any additional fee just to download GIFtest from the BBS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shareware Vendor Distribution ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This copyrighted software and its documentation is NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN. However, GIFtest may be distributed at no charge, or for a charge not to exceed $12 US to cover shipping and media costs. When secondarily distributed, GIFtest must be in its original compressed form and accompanied by its full documentation. The distributed software and documentation may not have been modified in any way. No secondary distributor is authorized to "register" an individual copy of GIFtest. Registration fees may only be sent directly to the author as outlined in the manual on disk. Note that the registration fee is exclusive of, and over and above any fees that may have been charged by a secondary distributor. A secondary distributor must notify it's customers that GIFtest is a shareware program and that the fee payed by their customer does not include any fees owed the author for use of this program. A secondary distributor must notify the author of their intention to include this group of files in their distribution. A secondary distributor may be granted exceptions to these conditions, only in writing from the original author. The author reserves the right to change any of these conditions without notice and any changes become retroactive. Failure to abide by this license agreement may result in either Civil Lawsuit or Criminal charges being filed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special ShareWare Distributor Version ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The author will also provide any BBS or secondary distributor a "special" shareware copy of GIFtest that will display "Obtained from:[your bbs or company name here]". To obtain this special version, contact the author and a copy will be sent to you at no charge, either through US Mail (you pay for shipping), or uploaded directly to your BBS (your dime) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ordering Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you have registered GIFtest, you are eligible to receive all future versions of GIFtest for no additional upgrade fee beyond any necessary shipping charges. Multi-node systems do not need to register one copy for each node, instead, we charge just a $10 fee which covers from 2 to an unlimited number of nodes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shipping and Handling ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All orders REQUIRE a shipping and handling charge as shown below. These charges cover our costs in shipping your order and tracing delivery problems. Disk Only --------- USA (standard) $ 2.00 USA (2nd day air) 8.00 Canada and Mexico 3.00 All other countries 5.00 For each additional diskette up to a total of five add $1.00 (regardless of destination). On orders for over five items contact the author for reduced shipping charges. Orders typically require 3 - 4 business days processing time before shipment, and may take more or less depending on our order backlog. US standard shipping is via UPS Ground, via US Priority Mail where UPS delivery is impossible (PO Boxes, Alaska, Hawaii, and APO / FPO addresses), and via First Class Mail for diskette-only orders. US 2-day shipping is via UPS Blue Label. All shipping outside the US is via Air Mail. Shipping time varies from 1 business day for UPS Ground to New England, to 6 business days for UPS Ground to California, to several weeks for countries outside the US where mail service is slow. Express shipping via UPS Red Label or Federal Express is available; contact us for rates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Payment Terms ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal checks may be subject to a bank clearance delay before shipment. All payments must be made in US funds and drawn on a US bank; see below for more details on International orders. There is a $10 charge for all returned checks (the bank's, not mine). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Orders ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are happy to accept orders from outside the US, but must require payment in the correct form to avoid the exorbitant fees charged by US and non-US banks for international check collections. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acceptable forms of payment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * A check or money order in US funds and drawn on a US bank. Checks which are not in US funds and drawn on a US bank must unfortunately be returned to you, resulting in significant delay in processing your order and additional expense to you. * An international postal money order in US dollars. ---- End Of File ----