Published on 2007-05-23 23:41:55
Tim O'Brien asked an interesting legal question about JavaFX license, something that I didn't notice it was missing in the announcement. The new JavaFX Sun technology is open source correct but under an evaluation license only. His conclusion is that "it is illegal to do anything with JavaFX at the moment". It's a bit confusing to announce a new technology, open source community, make a buzz, then try to figure out which license is going to be under.
So for now JavaFX is for preview only, if you find it successful or want somehow to use it, hold on because "you cannot redistribute JavaFXPad or any of the jars", as Sun explained to Tim, "The licensing terms for JavaFX are still under discussion". Anyone have an idea of a possible license or combination of licenses for JavaFX ?
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