On 14/11/15 13:56, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Bulgaria is really very beautiful just now with super, autumnal weather
. . .
I have a « Terms of Use » problem with LiveCode.
I wonder if my "lack of problems" is due to my terminal naivety or my
basically criminal nature . . .
At the risk of putting my big, fat foot right in the manure, here goes.
I bought into Livecode several years ago, using it every day for my private
use.
I have stopped buying the new versions of LiveCode as they become available,
because I am happy with 5.5, I can’t afford to upgrade, and I never wished to
sell my apps !.
I wrote a personal Family Tree program for free distribution to my family
members.
It can only be used by members of my family.
I am now confused with the terms of sale of the various LiveCode licences.
Life is becoming complicated.
1 - Am I allowed to GIVE, for no financial gain, my 5.5 developed Family Tree
program,
or any silly games I have created, to other members of the family or my friends
?
As far as I am aware you can do absolutely anything you like with a
stand-alone program you
generate from any version of LiveCode that you legally own.
I, for the sake of argument, have been merrily selling, giving away and
forcing on others, programs of all sorts
made using both commercial LiveCode 4.0 and 4.5 (which I own),
and giving away and forcing on others (but NOT selling), programs of all
sorts
made using any community (open source) version you care to think of.
You can (so I understand) sell programs made using the community versions,
but you have to wrap the thing up with an Open Source license and also make
the original stacks available to any one who wants them.
2 - What can I do, and NOT do with my 5.5 liveCode ? What are the 5.5 licence
rules ?
I think that you will find that you can deploy it on as many computers
as you like on the understanding that ONLY YOU
are actually using your commercial version to develop things.
3 - My Son-in-Law works for a company who use a dictionary of terms used in the
automobile industry, in four languages, which is impossible to learn. I wrote
an application
to make available the references of all of the terms in a rapid user-friendly
display.
Can I GIVE this application to my Son-in-Law for his own personal use ?
Yup.
4 - If I want to make available a free version of this application to other
members of the
company where my son-in-law works, under what conditions may I do this ?
None as long as the stacks are password protected so that no-one can
"suck out the juice".
5 - If I buy a business version of LiveCode and SELL the application to my sons
company
(because they will love it), what happens after the expiration of my licence.
Can the company still use the application ?
Of course: that would be a load of cobblers if every time your developer
license ran out
all your customers had to either stump up new money for you, or wait
until you renewed
your developer license.
Sorry to bother you with these questions, but even with my high IQ, I can’t
understand your
licence rules, especially as they have been much modified since I BOUGHT 5.5
quite some time ago.
You may address any answers to my e-mail, but I honestly think that they will
interest
the LiveCode community.
I don't know how high your I.Q. is; but what I can tell you is that
when, at 17 (this is, after all,
the sort of thing that teenage males tend to do to boost their fragile
egos) I took an I.Q. test
I got the princely score of 142: since then I have been proven stupid so
many times I've lost
count! As far as I can tell all that an I.Q. test result tells you is
how good you are at taking I.Q. tests.
And the LiveCode licence rules do seem a bit hard to understand: I do
hope they coincide
with my understanding of them as I have described here.
Best Regards
-Francis
However, I do heartily recommend that you DON'T take my word on this,
and I hope that our combined "Noise" will
raise a definitive ruling from the mothership . . . Heather, would you
care to let me ruin your weekend once again?
Wishing you sunny, douce weather where ever you are.
Richmond.
_______________________________________________
use-livecode mailing list
[email protected]
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
