Juergen --
Jamie doesn't say that mInt is "free" in the "free software" (GPL) sense,
only that the system is freely available for download. And I
doubt it's Jamie's fault that his boss (Dave Davies) suggested that it
would be open source back in November, and that Mr. Davies
since apparently backed away from that:
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-11/0163.html
[Dave Davies]
> We have this code as part of mIntaDev which we be releasing (on the week
> of the 26th assuming the developers get their act together - no
> promises.) as Open Source, (modified IBM Public License)
(Wow, great way to motivate your programmers -- humiliate
them on a mailing list. Isn't it precisely one of the advantages of
open source that contributors aren't required to sacrifice quality
for deadlines?)
On the other hand, it's not obviously closed source either.
There is not even a copyright notice in anything I've looked
at so far, amazingly.
I also don't notice any license terms that *prohibit* decompilation,
so if you get tired of a crippleware system that can only allow
so many users at a time ... well ...
Be nice and pay IntaDev anyway ;-)
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juergen Specht" <js@nooper.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: mInt (Mobile Internet) Product Release - FREE -
Check it out!
>
> Hi Jamie,
>
> Tuesday, January 22, 2002, you wrote:
> > We have just released mInt, our new mobile browser contents management
> > tool. It's available free of charge via download: http://m.intadev.com
> > <http://m.intadev.com/>
>
> how free is "free"? I can not find any licensing information
> on your site...and the FAQ actually answers questions about
> Japan's wireless systems, not about mInt.
>
> Confused: Juergen
> --
> Juergen Specht CTO, Nooper.com - Mobile Services Inc. Tokyo, Japan
> i-mode/FOMA consulting, development, testing: http://nooper.co.jp/
>
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Received on Wed Jan 23 07:25:49 2002