Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[David Bovill]

Yes - this is a strange one! Warning - those of you that dislike lawyers
skip this email :)

"Apple won't accept any GPL apps" - the obvious thought is that it's those
crafty closed box Apple people again... where in fact it seems that Apple
are not enforcing anything - it's the open source people who are
complaining, filing orders to get apps pulled. And it is not really
directly to do with the code not being open - but a side effect of some of
the terms of the app store restricting distribution to 5 computers etc

In loosely speaking there is a bit of a clash in legal contracts - a sort
of side effect that is actually not in anyone's particular interest. Except
of course RunRev :) That is I think it best to view this as a case where
RunRev commercial licenses make it easier for us to get things done, it is
a "service" they provide (and will continue to provide) that allows us to
get around a lot of these bugs and hassles with open source, while allowing
us to develop, work with, use the business arguments we need with big
contractors - in short it's a healthy compromise.

I'd expect the GPL to move towards allowing app stores in the future -
providing there is another place where these restrictions are not in place
- and I would also expect Apple to slowly work with these changes in
license and adopt their terms - so this commercial advantage for RunRev
won't last forever.

On 1 February 2013 20:05, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 2/1/13 12:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>  As being a dev tool, there will be a certain percentage who will want to
>> use it for proprietary deployment.
>>
>
> And then there's the part how Apple won't accept any GPL apps in either
> the App Store or the Mac App Store, so anyone developing Apple products
> will need to purchase the commercial license.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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