Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Feb 1 14:04:15 EST 2013


Hi Peter,

It is open source and therefore the author doesn't need to be 
compensated and yes RunRev has access to that code. If RunRev decides to 
use the new code, they have to provide the new engine as open source, 
which you might consider a form of compensation for everyone who has 
contributed any code.

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On 2/1/2013 19:42, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Apologies if this has already been discussed but I have a licensing question
>
> Fast forward a few months, the code base is open source and the free
> version of LC is available.  Someone adds a feature to to the open source
> (not me, I have no C++ knowledge).  People using the free
> version obviously have access to it.
>
> Does RunRev have access to the code for that feature to include in the
> commercial version of Livecode?  If so, do they have an obligation to
> compensate the original author of the code?
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>





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