Robert Mann wrote:
> RE : issue : does livecode consider that all illustrative material
> & text etc in a stack to their view fall under GPL
I had thought Mark Waddingham had addressed that. When media is related
to the functionality, such as an icon, that would seem reasonable to
expect that it be included as part of the governed work.
If the media is incidental to the app, or more clearly if it's even
physically external to the app, you should be able to remove it if you
don't want to share that, in the same way that you can make a word
processor and you're not obliged to include the poetry you typed with it
while you were working on it.
> in my case I've got a project that is related to "publishing" some
> music practice apps.
> So cards that contain audio elements, and copyright material like
> songs, music scores and also pictures, videos & texts (subject to
> copyright).
Ah, at last something specific and concrete! Thank you. The
abstractions had become boggling.
Why not just do what other apps do and separate your content from your
functionality. Then you can share your app as a functional thing with
content that's interchangeable. This may also just be a useful way to
architect, allowing you to build one system that can accommodate any
number of titles.
> So all coding would be available to all of course. But these
> copyrighted elements will not be GPL compatible because as simple
> as it is french law does not allow an author to push away his
> copyrights.
The French have made some of the finest films in the world, and I'm able
to know this because they were distributed here. The creators of the
works retain copyright even as they offer specific rights with regard to
distribution to others.
No distribution license is a transfer of copyright. Not in film, not in
software.
> 1) what seems to be important is the timing of making publicly
> available some code :
> -- if you "release" some code under GPL for testing out an app
> -- and than later on turn to the closed IDE to produce a closed
> version in view of a commercial development
> ..if I get it right, you're done! bad choice :: GPL infringement!
A choice is license is not in itself either "good" or "bad"; we choose
our licenses according to our goals. When the goal is to share, the GPL
can be a good choice.
But this is not about timing, but of distributed material: if you
distribute the GPL-governed engine, it's governed by the GPL.
What you do in your own home is your own business; what we're discussing
here is distribution, and it matters less when you distribute than what
you distribute.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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