Hello.
I previously used J on my PDA and liked it (back when I had a Windows
Mobile PDA). Currently I think about (slowly, partially, with worse
performance) reimplementing parts of J - at least for use on my Linux PDA.
I found some posts on the mailing list that claim that nothing impedes
an open-source implementation of J. In my opinion, such an
implementation would be a derivative work of the J dictionary. J
dictionary has "all rights reserved" on its title page, so such a
derivative work could be infringing.
Does anyone know the official position of JSoftware about this? Maybe
JSoftware describe JDictionary license somewhere (if it wants inferior
opensource implementations to appear - including platforms where no
official binary is provided). Otherwise, maybe it could be stated
explicitly that alternative implementations are unwelcome (I do not
think anyone will look for a legal loophole to create one in this case).
Thanks
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