On 3/8/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following post contains no value :-) > > On 3/8/06, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For process reasons the source code of > > the libs will not be available > > > The jars would be free for copy, modification, usage, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > How can you allow modification without source code?
the scenario is that someone familar with the code (like me) creates a open source application and the jars are allowed for distribution. > > > This is because the company, > > which owns the code, has to make additional reporting to the > > headquarters in case they would publish the source code and ensure, > > that there are no comments in the source code, that contain > > non-disclosure information. > > This is a really stupid reason ;-) I am curious is there a tool that > strips out comments from the source code? The code itself can be > easily reverse-engineered. well, yes you are right, but: we are part of one of largest german companies and the politics are partly more important than common sense. In case someone someday questions the decision it would be easier to find a legatimation this way. Don't aks me why :-) After all I find it most important to have the jars this way as not to have them at all :-) > > Michael. > leon > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
