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On 25 Aug 2004, at 17:59, Newsbyte wrote:
Such a tool would BY DEFINITION not be open source. And if it had to >run
in its own JVM there would be a major performance cost at least on older
JVMs.
No, it wouldn't. In the sense of a GPL'ed Open source project, it would, but
that's not the only licence possible for Open Source. It's perfectly
possible to make the code public and open source, but make a reservation in
your licence that it may not be used to (make a tool to) circumvent the
encryption.
Not according to section 6 of the Open Source definition:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
See: http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php
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