From a thread on the scala-tools list a few months ago:
> Another question: Can scala redistribute JavaRebel? Can it redistribute
> with a license? I didn't notice any info on the website where they posted
> the free license, however in looking at their licensing agreement, I just
> want to make sure we honor ZeroTurnaround's interests (and their amazing
> donation).
I can assure you that you can redistribute JavaRebel; we are working
out the legal details at the moment, but the free Scala license is
meant for redistribution.
Jevgeni Kabanov
ZeroTurnaround
The thread has a few more choice tidbits. Basically, we were discussing this exact issue (JavaRebel and the Scala REPL in SDT).
Daniel
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Miles Sabin
<miles@...> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Daniel Spiewak <
djspiewak@...> wrote:
> IIRC, we've heard from the JavaRebel guys on this before. Assuming that I'm
> remembering correctly, the answer was that bundling the Scala version of
> JavaRebel with the plugin would be no problem at all.
I think we need something a little more than things that someone might
have said on a mailing list once if we remember correctly. I can't
find any kind of document on the ZeroTurnaround site which lays out
the details of the license ... in particular anything which says it's
freely redistributable.
> JavaRebel provides a free version for use with Scala which does allow for
> redistribution. At the very least, we could bundle the javarebel.jar and
> force the users to point to a license in the preferences.
I think that JavaRebel is a fine product. But what you're suggesting
would basically be an open source project giving it free advertising.
It's not clear to me (yet) why the Scala community should be expected
to do that.
Cheers,
Miles
