Scott Hickey-3 wrote:
As I read it, I was increasingly shocked at how blatantly one-sided it is and kept thinking there must be a "I benefit..." somewhere.
Its truly "Help us build our commercial software and we won't pay and you won't have any rights to use it." That's it. It appears that the best case scenario is that I would somehow like it, never need to look at the source, and would only ever need to run it on up to a 4 core machine.
I believe that they intend to make the source available in the near future. Presumably under similar terms as Sun used to release the JDK source.
If anybody is tempted to download the source I'd recommend looking closely at the licensing terms. Be sure that reading the source does not "infect" in the way that Sun's old JDK source licensing terms did (it meant you could not work on anything which might benefit from what you learned form the source - Disclaimer IANAL, it was al ong time ago and I may well have got the details of Sun's infective licence wrong)
John Wilson
