Yep. don't quite know what to make of this one. Obviously Lutz Roeder
has put a lot of hard work into reflector, and has the right to do what
he wants with it. I hope Redgate paid him well for it. Redgate claim
there going to act responsible with it [1] but the licence they've
imposed makes me think otherwise [2]. I love clause 4.2:
4.2 Save as set out in this License, the Licensee has no right to use,
incorporate into other products, copy, publish, display, modify,
translate the Software or any modification, adaptation or copy of the
Software or any part thereof, nor to decompile, reverse engineer, or
disassemble the source code of the Software either in whole or in part,
except to the limited extent permitted by mandatory law notwithstanding
contractual prohibition.
Okay, so don't decompile the decompiler.
Anyone for starting an open source code browser? I'd love to, but not sure I have the stomach (or the time).
Cheers,
Robert
[1]
http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/the-future-of-reflector-/[2]
http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/license.htm----------------------------------------
From: "Gabriel Schenker" <
gnschenker@...>
Sent: 22 August 2008 00:31
To:
altdotnet@...
Subject: [altdotnet] .NET Reflector now belongs to Redgate
after years of development Lutz Roeder obviously abandons it's flag
ship an has given (sold?) it to Redgate.
Although Redgate has annouced to provide a free version also in the
future I fear that in the long run you will have to pay for the full
version of Reflector.
Do we have to say goodbye to another indispensable OSS tool? (see e.g.
what happened to NCover and Testdriven.Net)
