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To clarify one point about the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), according to Wikipedia,
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself. In addition, the DMCA heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet.
In other words, this is a measure that protects copyright holders. I guess it's best known in the context of music.
Hope that helps. / comments
To clarify one point about the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), according to Wikipedia,
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circ...
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Just to clarify one point, you'll see if you download .NET Reflector v6 that it ships, as is customary, with all relevant licenses - including that for Mono.Cecil.
I hope that answers the point. / comments
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Just to clarify one point, you'll see if you download .NET Reflector v6 that it ships, as is customary, with all relevant licenses - including that for Mono.Cecil.
I hope that answ...
Reflector just wasn't licensed that way before. Versions always expired and you needed to go and update. (Which has seriously annoyed some people over the past ten years.)
With v7, as Greg said, we're ending that. 'Perpetual license' is just a common term: you buy a license to use the software, and the license never expires. Which is pretty standard - certainly for Red Gate products. / comments
Reflector just wasn't licensed that way before. Versions always expired and you needed to go and update. (Which has seriously annoyed some people over the past ten years.)
With v7, as Greg said, we...
Gah, sometimes I wish we had some corporate smoothies to do this for us.
OK, so I missed "you broke your promise."
That's not true. Yes, I've read the posts from the time too. There really isn't anything there that's a promise that Reflector was going to be free forever. But yes, we did totally mean it to work out that way. We worked hard to make that viable. It just wasn't. So now we're asking people to pay $35 for Reflector.
For more on that, maybe watch the five minute interview on YouTube. / comments
Gah, sometimes I wish we had some corporate smoothies to do this for us.
OK, so I missed "you broke your promise."
That's not true. Yes, I've read the posts from the time too. There really isn't an...
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This discussion is under the heading "Red Gate should turn .NET Reflector back to open source." So I'd better try and respond to that first off.
(This is in the FAQs - please do look these over.)
.NET Reflector wasn't an open source product before we acquired it, and it isn't one now. When it became obvious that things couldn't just carry on as they were, we did look at that as an option. But it really didn't make sense for us.
The other thing that's come out a couple of times is the time-bomb question. Reflector v7 is the first version to be coming out with no time bomb.
I Googled Reflector Time Bomb for the period up to July 2008, and you'll find this has been a pretty constant complaint forever. Forever ends in March. No more time bomb. / comments
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This discussion is under the heading "Red Gate should turn .NET Reflector back to open source." So I'd better try and respond to that first off.
(This is in the FAQs - please do lo...