Ken, >I really don't understand where there are doubts. The license specifically says you can use the >Development license to deploy anywhere you want. What doubts are there?
There are two doubts: 1) http://www.apple.com/webobjects/specs.html says: - Requires only *one license per machine*, regardless of platform, speed, or number of processors Due to the wording of the new 5.3.1 license, it's not clear whether you still need a separate license per machine or the specs page hasn't been updated for 5.3.1. 2) More importantly, the current 5.3.1 deployment key does *not* work on non-Apple platforms (this has been confirmed by various people on non-Apple servers, also on the deployment list). So while the legalese was changed to allow it in 5.3.1, it doesn't work technically/practically at the moment. A bug report has been filed (#4354596) and I and others have contacted Apple about this. Details are in the feedback to the blog URL you posted: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2005/11/11/webobjects-deployment-license-change/#comments _______________________ [...] Marc says: November 23rd, 2005 at 2:38 pm The new WO 5.3.1 license key does not work on non-Apple server platforms. So while the license has been changed, the license key for WO 5.3.1 dows not work on platforms other than OS X Server, but the older WO 5.3 key works. Could anybody make this work on WO 5.3.1 on Linux or Windows ? Neale says: November 25th, 2005 at 6:52 am I can confirm that the WO 5.3.1 license key does not work when deploying under JBoss 3.2 on Windows 2003 Server. : Cannot be initialized.: The License key [deleted for web] is invalid. "Take the key included with the dev tools and deploy wherever the hell you want to…" - I don't think so. So *legally* Apple have made it possible to deploy on any platform, however *technically* & in practice it is impossible - surely this can't be right!? Marc says: November 25th, 2005 at 10:22 am @Neale: Thank you for your confirmation ! No, this can't be right. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, I guess we will have to wait a little longer on an answer from Apple to resolve the technical issue. Neale says: November 25th, 2005 at 11:40 am I'm hoping this is a rather simple mistake on Apple's part of including an incorrect license string with WO 5.3.1. In previous versions when you attempted to deploy with a platform-specific key on another platform the error message was a lot more explicit - it told you what you were trying to do was unsupported. Similarly if you attempted to deploy using a development license etc, etc… However this error message 'License Key is invalid' - seems to indicate that the license checking code isn't even getting as far as assessing the capabilities of the license - it looks like its tripping up straight away. However what is weird is that plugging the 5.3.1 license into the the WOLicenseUpgrader.app does seem to decode it and reports it as a "5.3 Deployment - Multithreaded - Unlimited requests" As other people have reported the old 5.3 development key will allow you to deploy on non-Apple platforms under 5.3.1. Hope this helps. Neale says: November 25th, 2005 at 12:15 pm Filed Radar #4354596 for this at bugreport.apple.com _________________________________________________ PS: As mentioned above, I and others have already contacted Apple with these doubts Marc
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