VNCrobot license issue

Mike Miller mbmiller "at" taxa.epi.umn.edu
Fri Mar 23 00:12:00 2007


On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ran Sasson @ I.O. Ltd. wrote:

> On 3/21/07, Mark Rainford <Mark.Rainford "at" jet.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Try vncrobot: it has screen capture...
>
> Nice tool, so it seems...
> Unfortunately it is not GPL'ed , and how come it's source-code is not
> available ?

It is being distributed under a "freeware license":

http://www.vncrobot.com/downloads/index.html

>From there main page here...

http://www.vncrobot.com/

...we read "VNCRobot is a tool based on a VNC client." and "VNCRobot is an 
extension of VNC viewer."

Which makes it sound like it could have RealVNC code inside, but it is 
written in Java, so maybe not.  Anyway, I don't know why it wasn't 
released under GPL.  I won't use it.

Mike