Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[Glen Bojsza]

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.


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Monte Goulding
<monte at sweattechnologies.com>wrote:

>
> 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
>
> --
> Monte Goulding
>
> M E R Goulding - software development services
> mergExt - There's an external for that!
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