Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Monte.  I guess I was thinking of new features rather than bug
fixes, e.g some sort of new control.  But I guess the principal is the same.

As you say, it will be interesting to see how all this unfolds.


Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Monte Goulding
<monte at sweattechnologies.com>wrote:

> I believe the intention is to have a rewards for contributors to the
> engine. Points that go towards commercial licenses. That's just a bonus
> though. I think what's most likely to happen is something like this:
>
> RunRev will do most feature development
> A developer hits a bug when working on an app
> If they know C++ then they might try and fix it. If not they might report
> it.
> If RunRev are too slow and it's a blocker the developer could pay someone
> to fix it and submit to RunRev.
>
> I'm still waiting for RunRev's response on the last point relating to how
> the Enterprise license fits in here. For example, if I could own the
> enterprise license and fix a bug for someone then send a pull request
> against the GPL repo and build for people with commercial licenses there
> could be some work there but I don't know how the restrictions apply. Do my
> clients also need enterprise to release with the modified engine. Am I
> permitted to distribute LC with a modified engine. Perhaps RunRev would
> like to keep this kind of quick turnaround paid bug fixing service for
> themselves which is entirely in their rights to do and might be a good
> business decision for them.
>
> One interesting idea for RunRev would be for them to allow Enterprise
> license holders to name their C++ developer. It's a single seat license but
> perhaps its reasonable (seeing as C++ knowledge is rare around here) that
> the source access could be given to a third party thereby enabling only
> distribution of the modified engine between the C++ dev and the Enterprise
> license holder. I guess this could be done using the extra seat which I
> think is going to be $2500. So perhaps if someone wants me to be their C++
> dev on engine work they need to buy enterprise then buy me a seat on their
> license??? Not sure how it's all going to work but I do know there's lots
> of new possibilities that will come out of all of this so it's going to be
> fun working it all out.
>
> On 02/02/2013, at 8:06 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > OK, makes some kind of sense.
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> > m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Pete,
> >>
> >> Yeah, you're missing the point, kind of. Everyone who contributes can
> also
> >> use all contributions by everyone else and when you contribute, you
> make it
> >> more attractive to others to cntribute too. That's the reward of
> >> open-source software and there is no reason for any additional
> compensation.
>
> --
> Monte Goulding
>
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