Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Mark,

Like I said, LC should consider creating their own license then.

After this little debate, I will never touch any GPL license ever
in the future.  In fact, I now consider the community version
of LC to be worthless.  I’ve always had an indy type license of 
LC which I’m fine with.  I’m just now totally disappointed that 
I can’t even suggest the community version to my friends to 
try out since they wouldn’t be able to use any code generated 
by it to be used in a later commercial product after they have 
purchased an indy or business license.  What a waste.

I supported both the community version and the html5
kick starters.  I’m now very sorry to have supported them
as neither one has fulfilled what I felt were their intended
goals.  They are both useless to my friends, and for the
many others who wanted to make use of them.

Rick


> On Jul 22, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Mark Wilcox <mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 03:10 PM, Rick Harrison wrote:
>> If the GPL license is overly restrictive perhaps LC should consider
>> releasing the
>> community version under a license similar to that used by PostgreSQL,
>> MIT,
>> or create it’s own Community License.  Clearly what they are doing now is
>> creating a mess that is causing confusion in the marketplace for them.
> 
> That would be fatal to LiveCode's business. No-one would need a
> commercial license if the engine was MIT licensed.
> 
> I don't actually have any problem with the GPL for a dual-licensing
> model. It's pretty tried and tested. Qt has been doing it for very many
> years and yet they have never tried to claim any copyright in their
> users software, they just insist that a program distributed with the GPL
> version of the Qt libraries is released under a GPL-compatible license.
> Developers working with the GPL version can create plugins for others
> and sell them commercially, the user of those plugins would need to get
> their own commercial license to make use of them in a closed source app.
> The Qt company folks view this as very positive activity in their
> ecosystem.
> 
> -- 
>  Mark Wilcox
>  mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk
> 
> 
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