Livecode Future

[Pi Digital]

Mike

Just picking up on your email below from earlier. You would be eligible for the 5% if you had it available in a privately accessible part of a web site to download as a standalone. That is, I’m pretty sure, the correct understanding of this licensing. And if you are getting $0 Gross from it, 5% of nothing is nothing. If you are being paid for you app by the company you work for then it is of not only commercial ‘use’ but also commercially profitable, and therefore you would pay 5% on whatever you are paid for said app Gross (ie, not just the net profit - a bit like the 30% gross you would pay to Apple from their AppStore). 

If I’m wrong, someone correct me. 

Sean Cole
Pi Digital

> On 25 Jul 2024, at 17:15, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> i'm coming to this conversation, late, because i'm spending very little
> time coding, and most of my time managing.
> if i understand the pricing correctly, LC wants to charge $440/year for
> each mobile device that is running an app that we wrote (we don't have any
> publicly available apps, so the 5%, aka the sales commission, wouldn't
> apply).
> so, for the app that we use on kiosks in our plant, and have messed around
> with letting employees put on their own phones, we're talking about
> somewhere around $7,000 (16 devices) for our internal app, and another
> $20-25k for our customers' apps.
> i hope that i'm wrong about that. if i'm not, lc just entered the realm of
> uncompetitive for building and running these mobile apps.