On 8/3/17 1:21 am, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
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.
Indeed: but rather more flexible strings than a lot of other software.
R.
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.
I always do . . . both release my source code & stir the Sh*t :)
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'.
Currently having a bad attack of indigestion.
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.
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