Hi Brahmanathaswami ,
I don't have the slightest idea. LiveCode's HTML5 website doesn't seem
to provide any information about it. I'm a little worried that they will
use a CGI engine in the same way as Xojo does. The engine and the stack
would be compiled into a CGI engine, which then produces Javascript that
can render the website in the browser. That would be a show stopper for
me, because shared servers often don't allow installation of additional
CGI engines.
If they don't use a CGI engine, I don't see how the HTML5 website could
be closed source. As Ralph writes, it is true that the Javascript will
probably be obfuscated or just too big to be interpreted by the human
reader, but that doesn't stop anyone from reading the source code and
converting it to something readable --LiveCode is a big project too, but
apparently it can still be read :-)
Then again, the text of the license might just contain some phrase,
which obliges any big company to publish the stacks in downloadable
form, unless the company has a commercial license.
Anyway, I couldn't find any info about this and that bugs me. I have no
idea if I should give a little money.
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On 7/17/2014 20:45, Brahmanathswami wrote:
Can anyone tell me what this actually get us?
"The HTML5 license permits closed source deployment to HTML5 only, other
platforms are not included "
My naive understanding of HTML5 is "deployed in a web browser"
why and where and in what contexts and also "how" would you need close
source deployment... isn't the CSS, JS and HTML for any such app
completely inspect-able (just open page source and then click on the css
link and js links...)
Swasti Astu, Be Well!
Brahmanathaswami
Kauai's Hindu Monastery
www.HimalayanAcademy.com
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