Christian, if there's no anti-compete clause in
the license, then please
I haev read the license, and although IANAL, I was astounded by it. IMHO
anyone who agrees to that needs their head examining!.
As I understand it, you can read such source code as is provided, but
uyou can;'t modify it or compile it, even for your own use.
You can't make 'competing products'. In partciular you can't write
programs to dump the image files back to physical disks. And as I
understand it, the free version fo the scftware won't do this, you have
to pay for that capability.
So if, in the future, the Kryoflux software is no longer available, there
is no legal way to make physcia ldisks from the images. This does NOT
sound like a good idea for preservation to me.
FWIW, I think this part about not developing cometing productis is 100%
ridiculous. My lathe didn't come with a l'license' telling me I could not
make accessories that competed wit hthe offical ones, in fact it's
expected that you will. My HP calculators don't come with licenses
prohibiting me from using them for calculations involved in designign
prodcuts that compete with HP. I've never seen a license agreement for a
compiler that prohibts you from using it to develop other compilers
(including oens for that same language). And so on.
-tony