what about java? On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Jayson Joseph Chacko <jayso...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > JavaFX runtime is not free. Check out the revised Sun binary license, > > http://www.java.com/en/download/license.jsp > > It says, > > "Unless enforcement is prohibited by applicable law, you may not > modify, decompile, or reverse engineer Software...." > > It goes on to exclude the JavaFX runtime specificially from the open > source material, > > " Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license > without fees to reproduce and distribute the Software (except for the > JavaFX Runtime)," > > It is clear that Sun wants to extract the benefit of projecting > something as open source free software and at the same time wants to > hold on to the runtime as proprietary software. They are just waiting > to see how it turns out. :-) > > As we have already seen in the FSFS conference Sun is able to market > JavaFX (think about the publicity they got) as a free software even > though it is proprietary. That is what I call stealth marketing and I > don't know how that is in anyway different from Novell's idea :-) > > > On Dec 13, 11:54 pm, "Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil" <vu2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > Also , there should be some peer review on selection of topics for > > conferences. I cannot see any papers or transcripts of the conference on > > the website. See my new post on closed source conference papers. > > > > http://brainstorms.in/?p=244 > > > > It seems the javafx is not fully open source. Can some one enlighten on > > the license of java fx. > > > > Sunil > > > -- Miles to go before I Sleep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
