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Comment by graemep

4 days ago

Its BSD licensed. They do not way what the plans are but most likely a proprietary version with added support or features.

It's a BSD licensed binary blob. There's no code provided.

  • Wow! That is so weird.

    Its freeware under an open source license. Really misleading.

    It looks like something you should stay away from unless you need it REALLY badly. Its a proprietary product with unknown pricing and no indication of what their plans are.

    Does the fact that the binary is BSD licensed allow reverse-engineering?

    • > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted

      Reversing and re-compiling should count as modification?

They say the source code for the part “where the magic happens” is not available so I am not sure what BSD implies there.

  • It serves as a ninja's smoke bomb until the "BSD" binary blob is suddenly obsoleted by a proprietary binary blob.