Hello,

The applet is free and will be free. This applet is a test right now.
It may succeed or it may fail. We will see.

The reason it is delicate and that sources shouldn't be distributed yet is
because in it's early stages, I can imagine 20 people changing the applet.
This results in 20 different applets, 20 different protocols. If there
are 20 different applets its no different than having 20 different cards
and the musclecard idea is completely lost. You can't have interoperability
on the card if there are 20 different versions of the applet.

The current license is restrictive, but that is because I'm trying to gain
feedback. The license currently restricts redistribution. I don't want
this initial version to be widely distributed and changed - if this occurs
nothing has been accomplished and a huge distribution mess has occurred.

I hope this is understood. I'm trying to push this idealistic dream of
interoperability on the card and not on the host. I imagine the day I can
put any Java Card smartcard into a computer and it works kind of like a
USB keyboard, floppy drive, and other things that work together at the
level of the hardware device.

Although many people on this list may disagree with me, I don't agree with
the GPL license - it is too restrictive. It does exactly the opposite of
what it stands for, restricts freedoms. GPL requires any software using a
GPL'd software be also open source. This is a restrictment.

I don't expect every item built on pcsc-lite and this applet to be free
and/or open source. Some may disagree with this.

I know these emails will stir up a huge debate, but I guess that's the
point of public forums like this : )

Dave

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