I think his point is that some open source projects would be more widely adopted and supported without the GPL - that the GPL actually harms open source.
I tend to agree.
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View source of the html page that contains the applet
Find the <applet> tag for the applet. This will tell you how the classfiles are getting loaded.
In the typical case, the applet will be packaged in a jar which is referenced in the 'archive' attribute of the tag. Download this and decompile away.
If the tag only specifies a 'codebase', you may have to download individual classfiles from the webserver yourself.
Mocha was available in 1996. Any half-serious java developer understands what decompilers and obfuscators are. They've read the JLS and the VM spec. They've probably reluctantly had to use JAD to debug some 3rdparty library. They can read license files which tell them what they can and can't do with those libraries without getting into legal trouble.
Why is this topic worthy of 280 slashdotted pages? Color me mystified.
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I think his point is that some open source projects would be more widely adopted and supported without the GPL - that the GPL actually harms open source.
I tend to agree.
- View source of the html page that contains the applet
- Find the <applet> tag for the applet. This will tell you how the classfiles are getting loaded.
- In the typical case, the applet will be packaged in a jar which is referenced in the 'archive' attribute of the tag. Download this and decompile away.
- If the tag only specifies a 'codebase', you may have to download individual classfiles from the webserver yourself.
- For more info, details on the applet tag are at:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/applet/apMocha was available in 1996. Any half-serious java developer understands what decompilers and obfuscators are. They've read the JLS and the VM spec. They've probably reluctantly had to use JAD to debug some 3rdparty library. They can read license files which tell them what they can and can't do with those libraries without getting into legal trouble.
Why is this topic worthy of 280 slashdotted pages? Color me mystified.