On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Monte Goulding <mo...@sweattechnologies.com> wrote: > > http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt > > Not sure what the license is for (whatever) but PHP is FOSS...
I have no problem with FOSS. In fact, I wrote the seminal economics paper on it . . . The licensing of the community edition, though, "infects" software shipped with it. The existence of an open source branch of my software would be catastrophic for me. And, frankly, GPL3 is scary. I'd like to recode my market software in livecode, which I'd release open source, but I can't do that on the community edition. I'll release it BSD, even public domain, but I won't risk releasing *anything* GPL3 (I think it was a serious error to use GPL3 instead of 2 for livecode). If I don't touch the community edition, there can be no claim to GPL3 from the High Church of Emacs on any of my work. > BTW I didn't say they weren't going to do a commercial version of the > server... just >that it might reasonably be seen as a low priority. LiveCode hasn't got a >massive user >base... the percentage of users using server is small... Dual licensing can make a lot of sense in certain circumstances (and it appears that LiveCode, like OpenOffice, is one of those). This works because contributions to the community version aren't accepted without being submitted to the commercial branch. However, you absolutely cannot make the *paid* version second-class, lagging behind the other. >the percentage that really >need commercial server would be only a handful. The percentage of those that >can't > continue to use the last available commercial version given there's really no >features added? are there any? For those doing an application and a web version, this absolutely locks them into an archaic branch, not allowing the use of any newer features . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode