Ugh, actually that sounds to me like their lawyers just mailed in the effort. I'm no lawyer but I would not accept that license agreement as it is one of the most anti-competitive things I've seen in a while. It essentially means you cannot use the fds.swc to build an "a.b" relationship in your code - even if you do the id to value mapping yourself. Similarly, if you want to use fds.swc along with sql-lite you are not legally allowed to do that either. If you display "disconnected" button and link against fds.swc that could be construed as "offline capability". Do they define this "modeling plug-in" in some way to differentiate the tools you pay for in FB4 from the LCDS tools? Both seem to be data modelling plugins to me. Does a Php server compete against BlazeDS?
Knowing the folks at Adobe, I believe they would use restraint and only enforce those provisions if you're actually using the association feature of fds.swc, the offline feature of fds.swc, and the modelling plugins in LCDS or if you really do compete with either of those two products. But if you're looking at Adobe as a provider for developer tools of any kind, this is a pretty seriously anti-competitive clause right there. If you sell any server products, you might want to stay away from the new FB data centric tools altogether. As it is, I'm not sure how any of the things I suggested in the last couple of emails would not be considered as "competing with LCDS"... darn it Adobe, you've cornered me again :( Jeff On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:07 AM, busitech <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I took a look at the FB4 Beta 2 License Agreement, and here's what I found: > > 2.4.7 Flash (R) Builder(R) with LiveCycle(R) Data Services(LCDS) Data > Management Library. Your rights to this Software are limited. In order to > (a) utilize the file called "fds.swc" (the "LCDS Library") to develop > associations , (b) utilize the LCDS Library to develop offline capability, > (c) use the application modeling plug-in, or (d) utilize the LCDS Library to > develop a product that competes with LiveCycle Data Services or BlazeDS, you > must obtain additional licensing rights from Adobe. > > So, the lawyers have been working overtime... This weekend I'm going to > spend some time with each of the available components, to see how complete > the package can becomes after adding up the sum of the parts... > > Matthew > > >
