For the first time in its 7 years of existence, some decent statement has been released concering the legality of Zeta. Access, the current owner of Be, Inc.'s IP, states: "We have sent 'cease and desist' letters to YellowTab on a number of occasions, which have been uniformly ignored. If Herr Korz feels that he holds a legitimate license to the BeOS code he's been using, we're completely unaware of it, and I'd be fascinated to see him produce any substantiation for that claim." Update: Bernd Korz has replied on his blog.
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Member since:2006-01-01
>> Bernd's timing
> Actually I just wondered the other way around, it's odd
> as well that this comes right at this time...
Not really. Magnussoft/yT/Bernd weren't talking about opensourcing the sourcecode before (and whatever that means in reality.) ACCESS have just jumped on the "opensource" part of the equation and have been pushed further to reveal more information by journalists asking more questions. After all, ACCESS have nothing to hide, it seems ;-)
Member since:2006-02-19
Agree, I tried to explain it to my friends in similar way. Problem is that opensourcing even innocent (for first look) codepieces may lead to copyright infridgement to much larger number of individuals and maybe companies. Like you cannot opensource some self-written media apps, if those use unpublished till now (and belonging to ACCESS) API.
So it may be really hard for Bernd even with big goodwill to opensource most of work done for Zeta - it may take too much time and efforts to estimate, which can and cannot to be published.
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2006-09-30
> Bernd's timing
Actually I just wondered the other way around, it's odd as well that this comes right at this time...