Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Feb 1 19:28:29 EST 2013
Glen Bojsza 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.
Nothing in the GPL would prevent anyone from *writing* such a feature,
but since the GPL requires that all source code under it be available
that would prevent them from ever *using* it. ;)
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