Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

[Mark Wilcox]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 04:53 PM, Rick Harrison wrote:
> 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 really don't think there's anything wrong with the GPL for this kind
of usage. The issue is with LiveCode (the company) and how they are
attempting to interpret its application to their code. To be honest I
very much doubt even the FSF and SFLC would support LiveCode's current
position.