FYI, I ping'd Apple about this... maybe hear something back or not...
if not, I'll use back-channels to get some legal answer, though I'm
tempted to just _play_ ignorant and publish them and then ask for
forgiveness later if needed.
Viva la OS X :-)
--jason
On Nov 19, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:
On 11/19/07, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any thoughts on making a resource bundle for each mac os x
JavaApplicationStub* bits and make them downloadable via the mvn
repo?
Hi Jason,
I guess your motivation for doing this is to build the application
bundles on non-OSX platforms such as Windows or Linux.
That is already possible today by including a copy of
JavaApplicationStub in the project using it. However, your solution
makes this one step easier by eliminating the need to copy and
configure the location of JavaApplication stub.
I'm a fan of anything that makes something one step easier :-)
The license I have for the 1.5 dist I have on machine is:
I guess the key part of the license is this:
Apple grants you a personal, non-exclusive
license, under Apple's copyrights in this original Apple
JavaApplicationStub binary module software (the "Apple Software"), to
use, reproduce and redistribute the Apple Software in binary form
only
as part of your own software program.
So that license is "personal" and allows to redistribute "only as part
of your own software program".
IANAL either, and I must admit this is quite confusing. I'm not sure
what "personal" means in this context. "..only as part of you own
software program.." might be an issue though. I guess
osxappbundle-maven-plugin is "our own software program", but does that
give us the right to include a copy of the JavaApplicationStub into
other people's software?
From a pragmatic viewpoint I doubt Apple will be after us for this and
if they do it will probably be a request to remove it which we can
easily do.
Are there any legal wizards around who can comment on this? Is there
something like a "legal department" at Codehaus? Or if this is going
into central, who is responsible for that?
Eirik.
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