Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[Richard Gaskin]

Glen Bojsza wrote:
> What if someone contributes to the GPL version that gives it the ability to
> have and create password protected stacks (not supporting the
> commercial implementation but a whole new variant)?
>
> Obviously, there will be contributors that will want to add features to the
> GPL version that has similar features in the commercial product.

Nothing in the GPL would prevent anyone from *writing* such a feature, 
but since the GPL requires that all source code under it be available 
that would prevent them from ever *using* it. ;)

--
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
  LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
  Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com
  Follow me on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys