Hi Mark, Like I said, LC should consider creating their own license then.
After this little debate, I will never touch any GPL license ever in the future. In fact, I now consider the community version of LC to be worthless. I’ve always had an indy type license of LC which I’m fine with. I’m just now totally disappointed that I can’t even suggest the community version to my friends to try out since they wouldn’t be able to use any code generated by it to be used in a later commercial product after they have purchased an indy or business license. What a waste. I supported both the community version and the html5 kick starters. I’m now very sorry to have supported them as neither one has fulfilled what I felt were their intended goals. They are both useless to my friends, and for the many others who wanted to make use of them. Rick > On Jul 22, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Mark Wilcox <m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 03:10 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: >> If the GPL license is overly restrictive perhaps LC should consider >> releasing the >> community version under a license similar to that used by PostgreSQL, >> MIT, >> or create it’s own Community License. Clearly what they are doing now is >> creating a mess that is causing confusion in the marketplace for them. > > That would be fatal to LiveCode's business. No-one would need a > commercial license if the engine was MIT licensed. > > I don't actually have any problem with the GPL for a dual-licensing > model. It's pretty tried and tested. Qt has been doing it for very many > years and yet they have never tried to claim any copyright in their > users software, they just insist that a program distributed with the GPL > version of the Qt libraries is released under a GPL-compatible license. > Developers working with the GPL version can create plugins for others > and sell them commercially, the user of those plugins would need to get > their own commercial license to make use of them in a closed source app. > The Qt company folks view this as very positive activity in their > ecosystem. > > -- > Mark Wilcox > m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
