Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-12 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 10, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: I got bored and decided to make an executable jar of your installation process: I am so very happy that the cure for your boredom is not bomb making or serial killing. :-P Chuck -- Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-10 Thread Don Lindsay
That is unfortunate, WebObjects would be able to reach more developers if we (or Apple) were able to make a runtime installation tool for windows. Don On May 10, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: My understanding has always been that you can redistribute it as part of an application for

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-10 Thread Q
On 10/05/2008, at 5:23 PM, Don Lindsay wrote: That is unfortunate, WebObjects would be able to reach more developers if we (or Apple) were able to make a runtime installation tool for windows. Just get the user to download the necessary file(s) from apple, and write a separate bundle

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Schrag
That is unfortunate, WebObjects would be able to reach more developers if we (or Apple) were able to make a runtime installation tool for windows. Just get the user to download the necessary file(s) from apple, and write a separate bundle that will extract the files and copy everything

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-10 Thread Don Lindsay
Hello Mike; I had just started this process myself. The CPIO on windows did not create the symlinks correctly, and going through changing all of the symlinks to copies was a task. So I was going to write an application to automate the process. Don On May 10, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Mike

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-10 Thread Don Lindsay
Sorry, I meant to thank you for doing this. Don On May 10, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Don Lindsay wrote: Hello Mike; I had just started this process myself. The CPIO on windows did not create the symlinks correctly, and going through changing all of the symlinks to copies was a task. So I was

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Schrag
The CPIO on windows did not create the symlinks correctly I ended up writing a little Java CPIO lib ... It's a pretty simple file format. btw, I can't believe there's no ascii cpio java lib anywhere on the intertubes, ms ___ Do not post admin

What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-09 Thread Don Lindsay
Hello; I have a windows WebObjects installation that functions and it is WebObjects 5.4.1. I do not know if I can zip my c:\apple directory and place it on a web server for distribution. I would expect that I cannot, that doing so would be a violation of the Apple Web Objects license.

Re: What can we legally zip up and distribute?

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Hill
My understanding has always been that you can redistribute it as part of an application for the sole purpose of executing that application. But the license is written in such a way that anything is far from clear. My opinion is that redistributing WO is likely to put you in contact with