> If this bothers you, buy a Mac Mini, install WO and expose the jars
> via Samba to your Windows machine :-)
>
>
Yes, that would be a good idea, at least this is what apple likes you
to do ;-)
> But I agree - it is ridiculous that programmers have to go into
> such trouble to interpret the stupid license.
>
> "EOF references" in source code are definitely not controlled by
> the Apple license (c'mon - do you seriously think that the day you
> learned about NSArray, you soul belongs to Steve Jobs). Whether
> *compiling* against WO jars is allowed under deployment license
> (using javac and Eclipse) - that's not 100% clear, but I'd say it is.
>
> Say I write a super dynamic WO application where a user enters WO
> template code in runtime, typing it in a web form for later
> rendering as a WO component... Or another WO app with some embedded
> scripting language with expressions compiled in runtime against WO
> jars. With modern Java, compilation is a de-facto part of
> deployment (IIRC in Java 1.6 there will be public compiler API
> available in runtime).
>
>
Well, i think the intention is pretty clear to all of us: development
only on mac os x, deployment free (and afaik also -for- free). While
the definition of development and deployment is quite flexible i
still think: its clear what development is and its clear what
deployment is. A hyperdynamic WOApp which compiles classes at runtime
from text entered in a WOText field and such things, at least clear
to me: deployment. A person which sits in front of a computer running
linux or windows, hitting the keyboard and triggering eclipse to do
something, with the help of different plugIns like WOLIps, at least
clear to meh: development.
But its up to apple to specify what development is and what not, but
only if they care about this. I am not sure if they really care and
at least for me its not important: i would -never never never-
develop on linux or windows so i am happy.
my additional 2ct.
David
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