I certainly understand and appreciate your concerns. As I posted earlier, the language is a precaution, but I did not explain what we are protecting ourselves from. The point of the language is to protect Macromedia from lots of little law suits. Language like this is necessary in situations where there are so many pieces in intellectual property changing hands on such a frequent basis. If the language was in some way ambiguous and did not fully protect Macromedia, one could imagine a scenario where one developer successfully sued Macromedia for something trivial (for instance, making a quick bug fix to piece of code before posting it) which could open the door for hundreds more similar law suits. The reality is that there are a lot of people out there looking for a way to make a quick buck by abusing the system, and it is imperative that we protect ourselves, even if that means that some people are not willing to participate.
That said, I have passed this thread along internally, so the right people are aware of your concerns. I have absolutely no idea if any changes can be made, but I have made sure that your points have been made. Christian On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:16 PM, Massimo, Tiziana e Federica wrote: >> You are right that some of terms are necessary in order for us to >> legally operate the Exchange, and some are meant as protection against >> being sued in the event that we include features in future versions of >> our products which are similar to features that that were enabled >> through code uploaded into the Exchange. Basically, it's a simple >> precaution. Lawyers leave nothing to chance. > > Christian, the whole DW's community keep complaining about this since > years. > It's one of the reasons why a few developers stopped uploading to the > Exchange and other (including me), carefully choose what to upload and > what > not. > > Last year I won an award for the best DW MX's extension, I was asked to > upload it to the Exchange, but I refused due to that crappy license: > > http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/special/extensions/ > > Actually I have an improved version of the extension, but it's not > going to > be on the Exchange unless you make significant changes to the > license... > It's a shame, both for me and MM > > I don't want to attack you or MM, usually I would avoid posting > something > like this in a public forum, but we started complaining the first week > the > Exchange was launched, 3 years later nothing as changed... Instead you > are > extending the license to the CF Exchange as well! > > Again, I don't want to attack anybody, I just think the community at > large > deserve to know some background info > > Best > > ---------------------------- > Massimo Foti > Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver > Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer > Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer > http://www.macromedia.com/go/team > ---------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
