Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[Monte Goulding]

On 02/02/2013, at 10:22 AM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What I don't quite understand is the physical difference between a commercially-licensed and an open source-licensed RunRev application.
> 
> Is the first just like it is presently, but the second is....?
> 
> Or the LiveCode application has two versions...?

There will be a few physical differences. 

The GPL version won't have any password protection and password protected stacks won't function. If RunRev GPLd the password protection or even let the enterprise users see the code it would put all commercial development at risk.

There's no need for script limits either. So any app built with it could make heavy use of do and merge. This will be awesome for revIgniter that already makes use of merge quite heavily and it's easy to go past 10 lines.

Cheers

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