LiveCode Commercial License

[JB]

Thanks Richard,

Both you and Mark helped explain things pretty good.
The ability to develop your program with a free version
and then buy a license later is a major plus.

That is similar to the Apple Developer Program which
cost $99 per year.  You can be a developer with Apple
for free but you do not get beta versions etc, and then
when you are ready to market your software you can
pay the $99.  In the meantime they provide you a lot
of free code samples and information even if you have
not paid the $99 yet.

John Balgenorth


On Sep 18, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> JB wrote:
> 
>> ...here is a question about the indy license for $299.
>> You can have sales up to 500k.  They do not have much
>> sales the first year and cancel the license.  The next
>> year sales are $2 million.  Is there license to market
>> the program still good?
> 
> My understanding is that the license period covers the use of the IDE, and that once an app made with has been deployed there is no time limit on the standalone.
> 
>> Certainly if they make that much it would seem idiotic
>> to not support the software that made them money but
>> you know people do some strange things.
> 
> I think pretty much everyone wants to see the same thing:  for all of us to use LiveCode productively at as little cost as practical.
> 
> The current pricing structure appears to strive for a balance with predictable cash flows, in which everyone making money with LiveCode contributes a small portion of that back to the core dev team to keep the joint running, smaller companies making less money contribute less, and those interested in proliferating free software under the GPL are invited to do so at no cost under the LiveCode Community Edition.
> 
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