Hi Cliff
Your NOFFICIAL, TEMPORARY, UNSUPPORTED help is most appreciated. I
wonder if others at Apple are as aware as you seem to be that the
whole WO licensing and deployment issue is currently a confusing mess.
From reading this list, and from the lack of response from Apple, I
have formed the impression that WO 5.3.1 cannot be deployed on any
platform except OS X. Linux users can run WebObjects servelets
inside Tomcat, but WO deployment using wotaksd ceased after 5.3.
Part of the evidence for this was that the 5.3.1 license only works
on OS X.
Your workaround suggests that this conclusion is wrong. The 5.3.1
license does not work on Linux is simply a mistake that has neither
been admitted or corrected (until your email). This is great news
and I very much appreciate your action is stepping outside of the
official "neither confirm nor deny" policy that continues to damage
Apple's reputation with developers.
I hope Apple sorts this out officially soon. The official webpage at
http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/
webobjects.html is apparently quite incorrect.
A response from Apple Software Licensing reported on webobjects-dev
this morning is an appalling example of non-service. I have appended
it below.
regards, and thanks for your genuine support of WebObjects developers
Denis Stanton
On 10/12/2005, at 9:48 AM, Cliff Tuel wrote:
It's been reported that the license key bundled with WebObjects 5.3.1
Developer isn't usable on platforms other than OS X, contrary to
what the
license agreement suggests. Here's an UNOFFICIAL, TEMPORARY,
UNSUPPORTED
workaround:
1. Download Xcode 2.1 (not 2.2) from <http://connect.apple.com/> to
an OS X
machine. Mount the disk image, but do not install.
2. Download Pacifist from <http://www.charlessoft.com/>.
3. Use Pacifist to open Packages/WebObjectsRuntime.pkg and extract
"License.key". Use this all-platform key with 5.3.1.
We realize this isn't an ideal solution; thanks for your patience
while we
work on this.
As to the question regarding obtaining additional deployment
licenses, I
don't have an official statement on that, at this time.
--
Cliff Tuel . http://apple.com/services/technicalsupport
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On 10/12/2005, at 5:37 AM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
Apparently, that is dealing with a "Distribution License" and not
either a development or a deployment license. I went to this site,
and sent an email asking for more information about the new
licensing for 5.3.1 to the address listed for "more information"
and got this response:
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:43 AM, SWL wrote:
Hello.
This department only handles the WebObjects distribution license,
so I'm
unable to answer your questions. Please continue to consult the
resources
available through www.apple.com.
Sincerely,
Paul Sonnenberg
Apple Software Licensing
Denis Stanton
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