Aaron Mulder wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Toby Allsopp wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with this. Software licenses apply only to copying,
>> because they are an artifact of copyright law. If you have legally
>> obtained the software (for which you may have had to agree to a license
>> because you may have copied it) you can *use* it an any way you want.
>>
>> Deploying a resource adapter is firmly covered by fair use.
>
>
> However, if you read the spec, it say the license flag indicates
> "whether a license is required to deploy and use the resource adapter".
> And if you read many licenses, they all seem to grant you the right to use
> the product.
I think we're talking about different kinds of licenses.
The JCA spec seems to be talking about things like having a restriction
on the number of simultaneous connections or an expiry date. In my mind,
these types of restrictions can only be imposed through some kind of
contract, e.g. I pay you $50,000 and agree not to connect to more than 2
kinds of database in return for being granted a license that allows me
to copy your resource adapter.
Perhaps my real problem is that I don't think it's appropriate to be
informed of a copyright-type license by the RARDeployer. I don't mind
being informed of a contractual restriction.
So, the problem I have is with the content of the license description in
your RARs. The license you have there, the X license or something, says
nothing (and can say nothing because it's a copyright license) about use
or deployment, so it's just unnecessary.
Toby.
P.S. Sorry - this is a pet peeve of mine.
