I probably should address the open source issue. Connexin raises this as a secondary reason why they shouldn’t have to pay license fees to use ARulesXL. It’s true that I had intended to make an open source version ofARulesXL. But I never actually finished the project, which was the licensing.
Connexin’s lawyers, in their declarations, seem to imply that if I intended to make an open source version of ARulesXL, then Connexin no longer had to pay the license fee for the commercial version they were using.
Maybe non-programmers might be confused by this point, but the name of their company is Connexin Software Inc. They’re a software company. They know what open source is.
To use open source software they would have to download the source code for the software, and use it to rebuild the executable version of the program, and have a valid open source license for the use they intended to make of the software.
They never claimed to have downloaded sources, never claimed to have rebuilt executables, and never claimed to have a valid open source license (one never existed). They just waved their hands and said they shouldn’t have to pay if I were willing to offer it open source. And, of course, they had the MoU.
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