Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[Kevin Miller]

Yes, we considered that. That stack protection code would be under GPL. So
it would have to be open. And therefore anyone could reverse engineer it.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
LiveCode: Unleash Your Killer App




On 01/02/2013 23:56, "Glen Bojsza" <gbojsza at gmail.com> 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.
>
>
>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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