JavaFX runtime is not free. Check out the revised Sun binary license, http://www.java.com/en/download/license.jsp
It says, "Unless enforcement is prohibited by applicable law, you may not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer Software...." It goes on to exclude the JavaFX runtime specificially from the open source material, " Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce and distribute the Software (except for the JavaFX Runtime)," It is clear that Sun wants to extract the benefit of projecting something as open source free software and at the same time wants to hold on to the runtime as proprietary software. They are just waiting to see how it turns out. :-) As we have already seen in the FSFS conference Sun is able to market JavaFX (think about the publicity they got) as a free software even though it is proprietary. That is what I call stealth marketing and I don't know how that is in anyway different from Novell's idea :-) On Dec 13, 11:54 pm, "Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Also , there should be some peer review on selection of topics for > conferences. I cannot see any papers or transcripts of the conference on > the website. See my new post on closed source conference papers. > > http://brainstorms.in/?p=244 > > It seems the javafx is not fully open source. Can some one enlighten on > the license of java fx. > > Sunil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
