Open Source Question

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Feb 27 14:52:29 EST 2013


Monte Goulding wrote:

 > On 28/02/2013, at 2:58 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >
 >>
 >> The GPL-governed Community Edition enforces its GPL requirements
 >> by not being able to run stacks made with the Commercial Edition.
 >
 > Richard this is not correct. It's only password protected stacks
 > that won't be able to be run on the GPL version. A stackfile is
 > a stackfile is a stackfile...

In those cases the engine may not be able to enforce the GPL 
requirements, but they remain just the same:

    You cannot redistribute software that includes closed source
    libraries with the open source version of LiveCode. Anything
    that is part of your application must be made available under
    the same GPL license.

<http://runrev.com/home/ks1/?preview>

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