Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

Klaus on-rev klaus at major.on-rev.com
Sun Apr 17 07:15:15 EDT 2011


Hi all,

> On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Scott McDonald wrote:
>>> Thanks Mark for clarifying that.
>>> Where I was getting it mixed up, was that I was equating selling
>>> commercially with not making the source code available.
>>> But of course, they are not the same thing.
>> Not exactly the same, but how many people pay for milk when they can get the cow for free?
> Many, many people. If it means they don't have to milk the cow themselves, and feed it, and stable it, and call the vet when it's ill.... There's value added by the coder who puts something useful together and maintains it, even if the product is open license and could be hacked at will.

Be careful guys!

Cow -> Milk -> ?

The next step might be the baneful CHEESE! :-D

> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Best

Klaus

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