Death of the Application Browser

[Peter W A Wood]

Monte 

> On 27 Nov 2015, at 06:29, Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:
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>> On 27 Nov 2015, at 9:24 am, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Given Mark Waddingham’s recent view of LiveCode stacks and GPL, if the Application Browser is hived off to the community anybody using it would only be able to sell it under the GPL. :-)
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> Actually that would appear to only be the case if the edits were made using LiveCode Community as the IDE is MIT licensed:
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/IDE%20License.txt <https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/IDE%20License.txt>

Given Mark’s earlier explanation, it is difficult to see how the IDE can be MIT licensed. After all, it is just a stack and if other stacks run with the Community engine can only be issued under the GPL, surely the IDE can only be issued under the GPL if it is run by the Community engine? In fact, surely anything distributed within LiveCode Community must be under the GPL? 

Regards

Peter