9 Mar
2012
9 Mar
'12
4:20 a.m.
> You
can't make 'competing products'.
...no, you can't use "the
Technology" to make competing products.
jgevaryahu didn't post enough for me to be sure what "the Technology"
means - and I would check if I cared - but I would expect it to refer
to KryoFlux's work and nothing more, in which case this strikes me as
eminently reasonable.
In the stuff jgevaryahu posted, most the restrictions cited are of this
nature. I do see one glaring exception, that being 3.d(ii); if I were
doing data preservation any such clause in the license for a tool would
completely eliminate that tool from consideration for me. It most certainly would cause me to include them out
of anything I
might do as an individual. Closed file formats - and this is an even
more egregious form of "closed" than most - are nonstarters for me.
And for this reason, and many others, there source is out there.