On 22/07/2016 16:53, Rick Harrison wrote:
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.
The whole point of the open source version of LiveCode is that it's for
making open source apps. I'm actually quite shocked that this seems to
have come as a surprise to you.
We have clearly been doing something very wrong in our communication
about the open source version of LiveCode, and for that I am very sorry.
Also, don't forget that open source and commercial are not necessarily
conflicting things. There are many commercial products that are also
Free Software distributed with the GPL license -- take the software
running on your home's Internet router, for example; it is almost
certainly running Linux which is GPL software _and_ also a commercial
product.
If someone wants to try out LiveCode with a view to making closed-source
software, they can register for a free trial of LiveCode Indy here:
https://livecode.com/trial/
Peter
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Dr Peter Brett <[email protected]>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager
LiveCode 2016 Conference: https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/
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