Just to pay reference to the comment about LiveCode - I missed it the first time around...
We (LiveCode Ltd.) did not 'give away' LiveCode. We released it under a software license that has strings. The GPL requires (subject to interpretation by lawyers - and a court of law) you to also release your source code of the things you write in LiveCode. There's no such thing as a free lunch - there's always some sort of payment somewhere - even if that payment is 'for the good of all' rather than in any form of 'currently understood currency'. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Aug 2017, at 23:24, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > >> On 8/3/17 12:03 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> Richmond Mathewson wrote: >> >> > No, I don't think we have to respect Apple's policy at all. >> >> A similar view might ask whether the DevaWriter license terms need to be >> respected, or LiveCode Ltd.'s, or Stephen King's, or the protections >> afforded any creator of an original work. >> > <snip> > > LOL. > > I have just changed my Devawriter licensing system so that each instantiation > of it that I sell is tied to the MAC address of > an individual computer. Therefore there is nothing to respect, a chain is a > chain, and if someone manages to spoof Mac Addresses > on a large scale to use my program the fact that they would go to that > trouble proves it's a program worth having! > > I have made my "licensing" system as hard as I can: I'm sure it can be > broken: whether it is worth going to that bother remains to be seen; > after all you can have a site licence for 10 machines at $200. > > If I really wanted to make "my fortune" programming computers I wouldn't be > tinkering around in our spare bedroom at 55 anyway . . . > > The reason I have changed it is because I know of someone who purchased my > Devawriter 3 years ago and now has copies all over the place: > my bad, I should have taken a bit more trouble: at least some people are > finally getting their heads around "Sanskrit As it Should Be": > > http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/home.html > > Apple's policy is "just" Apple trying something on. A EULA is NOT a legally > binding agreement: if you choose to abide by it you > can feel "awfully" moral, much in the same sort of way I haven't fathered 27 > children with 27 mothers simultaneously (which, oddly > enough, is not illegal) makes me fell that I'm slightly more moral in some > respects. > > I bought a 10 year-old Intel iMac about 8 months ago. I had the system > install disks from a Mac laptop of my wife's that went bang about 3 years ago. > Now I was probably breaking some sort of agreement by using those disks to > get my iMac going - possibly not "meant" to install on another Mac other > than the one they were bought with. Morally, as the one the disks came with a > dead computer I could see nothing wrong with using them to get > another, similar computer running; especially as I could find no way to > purchase Mac OS Lion disks from Apple. > > LiveCode give away the Open Source version of their product. . . > > Stephen King . . . well, if you really have to read his books you can borrow > them from the library . . . I read 3 of them in about 1984. > > Love, Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
