revOnline and Open Source

[Kevin Miller]

I think most of the people sharing on revOnline are happy for their ideas
to be used, otherwise they wouldn't have uploaded the stacks. However I do
agree that some legal clarification is a good idea. How about we state
that everything on revOnline is automatically public domain, *unless* the
author of the stack places a clear notice on the stack that declares
copyright and an alternative license of their choice (they can use
whatever they like but only if they say so clearly)?

This is just a suggestion for feedback, not policy yet, so let me know
what you think.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can code




On 01/08/2013 10:52, "Robert Mann" <rman at free.fr> wrote:

>So to sum it up :
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>1. Situation is a big mess :: all stacks published at revOnline are ab
>initio protected by copyright, which is in apparent conflict with the
>purpose of revOnline, which is to share code ideas and code.
>2. Authors SHOULD specify the terms and license they agree upon
>3. Clearly, taking a revOnline stack and distributing a commercial version
>without the original author consent would be illegal.
>4. Open  Source Side effect : If authors do not do not care to specify an
>Open Source License, the stack cannot be simply modified and re-published
>with OS Livecode, as the second "user" will have no clean right to do so,
>except if he asks the original author for authorization or license to do
>so.
>That should be cleared a minimum at the revOnline publishing stage
>otherwise
>one could end up with a bunch of mixed spaghettis.
>
>5. The protection of libraries remains to be clarified.
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>Question :: what if I open a revOline stack, find some handlers and
>mechanism I like to use elsewhere, just copy part of the script from the
>editor, modify a little to suit my precise needs and environment.
>
>Copyright applies to a complete work and does and should not protect
>"ideas". The purpose of revOnline is to promote the communication of
>"ideas"
>of implementations... so we are on a kind of frontier.
>
>So that practice of using revOnline as a source of inspiration should not
>break copyright rules???
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