Commercial Indy License for HTML5

[Kevin Miller]

This has been set out on the web page for HTML5 and on the video.

It is not a CGI. It renders client side in the browser, without a plug in.

Technically yes, you can look at the JavaScript in a browser. However
given the complexity of it + obfuscation you won¹t realistically be able
to make much sense of it. There is a whole world of difference between
obfuscated/unreadable JavaScript protected by copyright and the GPL, which
requires you to upload the stacks for your entire application with
readable, editable and redistributable code.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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On 17/07/2014 21:28, "Mark Schonewille" <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
wrote:

>Hi Brahmanathaswami ,
>
>I don't have the slightest idea. LiveCode's HTML5 website doesn't seem
>to provide any information about it. I'm a little worried that they will
>use a CGI engine in the same way as Xojo does. The engine and the stack
>would be compiled into a CGI engine, which then produces Javascript that
>can render the website in the browser. That would be a show stopper for
>me, because shared servers often don't allow installation of additional
>CGI engines.
>
>If they don't use a CGI engine, I don't see how the HTML5 website could
>be closed source. As Ralph writes, it is true that the Javascript will
>probably be obfuscated or just too big to be interpreted by the human
>reader, but that doesn't stop anyone from reading the source code and
>converting it to something readable --LiveCode is a big project too, but
>apparently it can still be read :-)
>
>Then again, the text of the license might just contain some phrase,
>which obliges any big company to publish the stacks in downloadable
>form, unless the company has a commercial license.
>
>Anyway, I couldn't find any info about this and that bugs me. I have no
>idea if I should give a little money.
>
>--
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>
>Mark Schonewille
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>On 7/17/2014 20:45, Brahmanathswami wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me what this actually get us?
>>
>> "The HTML5 license permits closed source deployment to HTML5 only, other
>> platforms are not included "
>>
>> My naive understanding of HTML5 is "deployed in a web browser"
>>
>> why and where and in what contexts and also "how" would you need close
>> source deployment... isn't the CSS, JS and HTML for any such app
>> completely inspect-able (just open page source and then click on the css
>> link and js links...)
>>
>>
>>
>> Swasti Astu, Be Well!
>> Brahmanathaswami
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