Don Day wrote: > > I want to download the latest version of Standard Edition to evaluate its > applicability to the DITA DTDs, but I had a question about the current > license. Under "Restrictions" is the following paragraph: > > "The Software is confidential and proprietary information of Licensor. > Licensee agrees to protect the Software from unauthorized use or > disclosure." > > Why does the license call XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition (the > Software) "confidential and proprietary?" This is the rating my company > uses for business-critical materials they keep behind the firewall! I can > understand this statement for the source code in the Professional Edition, > but not for the object code only Standard Edition. This statement needs > explanation, please, for potential users and for users who have already > downloaded XXE SE and are using it in compliance except for this apparent > exposure.
XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition is a *product* which, unlike Professional Edition, happens to be free. "The Software is confidential and proprietary information of Licensor. Licensee agrees to protect the Software from unauthorized use or disclosure." implies that: * XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition belongs to Pixware (i.e. that this software is not public domain, OpenSource, etc.) * Your employees agree to use it in your company given all the restrictions described in the XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition License. * Your employees are not going to decompile XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition to see how we have implemented it. * Your employees are not going to decompile XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition and distribute it Java sources on the Internet. In practice, you can use XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition freely in your company but you cannot do things such as: * Bundle it with one of your products. * Extend it by writing macros, scripts or plug-ins to connect it to your information system (For example, use XXE to load and store XML documents from/to a database). If you need to do that, you'll have to buy other types of licenses. All this is detailed in XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition License.
