Open Source Question

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

> On 28/02/2013, at 6:52 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>> >> The GPL-governed Community Edition enforces its GPL requirements
>> >> by not being able to run stacks made with the Commercial Edition.
>> >
>> > Richard this is not correct. It's only password protected stacks
>> > that won't be able to be run on the GPL version. A stackfile is
>> > a stackfile is a stackfile...
>>
>> In those cases the engine may not be able to enforce the GPL requirements, but they remain just the same:
>>
>>   You cannot redistribute software that includes closed source
>>   libraries with the open source version of LiveCode. Anything
>>   that is part of your application must be made available under
>>   the same GPL license.
>>
>> <http://runrev.com/home/ks1/?preview>
>
> A stackfile does not include closed source libraries unless we put them there. Once we do we can't expect it to be opened in the GPL version if they are password protected. This is one reason many addon developers will move to dual licensing.

Hopefully, yes.

There may be some works governed by incompatible licenses which are not 
password-protected, so we'll want to review the licenses for any 
libraries we use to ensure they're GPL-compatible.

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