I agree with Anjo. I was going to reply to the parent with a similar
comment.
IANAL (and don't want to be one), but doing open source work nowadays
requires thinking about legal implications. My thinking here is that
developing a WebObjects application outside of Mac OS is not subject
to any Apple license at all. Dev tools are WOLips, Eclipse and Java
compiler. None belong to Apple.
In other words Apple can't prohibit anyone from typing arbitrary
character sequences in a text editor, even if such sequences happen
to be Java code that uses WebObjects API.
In fact even if WOLips relies on some Apple API internally (I haven't
looked lately), then WOLips itself is just a deployed WebObjects
application, i.e. covered by cross-platform deployment license.
Andrus
On Nov 15, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
> This is ridiculous. If Apple has a problem with development on
> Windows, it's their business to go after any possible infringers,
> not ours. WOLips itself contains no code from WebObjects (I always
> wondered why it uses cayenne instead of the built-in classes from
> WO, but this seems to be a smart move after all).
>
> I for my part have done more than enough work fixing their bugs. I
> refuse to do any work for these legal games.
>
> Cheers, Anjo
>
> Am 15.11.2005 um 12:29 schrieb David Teran:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> afaik with WO 5.3.1 deployment on any platform is allowed, no need
>> to buy any license anymore. At least this is what i understand
>> from the license agreement.
>>
>> If this is true then apple did a great step forward.
>>
>> Now according to the license development is -not- allowed on non
>> Mac OS X systems. Even if its possible using WOLips and Eclipse,
>> no matter if on Windows or Linux or whatever.
>>
>> I would like to make a suggestion:
>>
>> WOLips should check the WebObjects version and platform. If the
>> version is 5.3.1 and platform is <> Mac OS X then it should refuse
>> to work. This would be just a consequence of the new license
>> agreement. One could make a special license for the license check
>> code in WOLips which says that changing this check, removing it or
>> using WOLips on non Mac OS X systems would break the license.
>>
>> IMHO its not OK to write software (which uses Apple Software, aka
>> WebObjects) which enables people to do something with WebObjects
>> which is not covered by the license.
>>
>> I just suggest this because i am quite happy about this new
>> license model: no deployment costs is really great, so its OK to
>> buy a mac for development.
>>
>> regards, David
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