Rant on my favourite topics : LC server with a side-dish of on-rev :-)

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Ralph & Matthias,

I am well aware of the GPL limitations of
the community version with respect to the
license.  

I never use password protected stacks.
I do see how that could be useful
though.  The encryption functionality is
important too. The tsNet external is also
nice for sending emails although I haven’t
needed that functionality yet.

If there are other differences it would be
nice to know where that list or document
resides, and it should be in plain sight
somewhere.

Thank you for the clarifications!

Rick


> On Nov 20, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Rick,
> 
> the commercial version of LcServer supports encryption, the use of password protected stacks and you can use the tsNet external with it, but you have to install these externals manually, because the build process currently doesn´t include them into to builds.
> Another difference is you do not require your code be distributed under GPL.
> But with community version of LcServer you have to do so "in case your server code is an integral part of making your LC based software work".
> See LiveCode open source questions at https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/ <https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/> <https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/ <https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/>>
> 
> Maybe there are also other differences, but the above are the ones i know.
> 
> Matthias