BETA RELEASE: LiveCode 6.1.0 Release Candidate 2

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 22:42:21 EDT 2013


On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Monte Goulding
<monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt
>
> Not sure what the license is for (whatever) but PHP is FOSS...

I have no problem with FOSS.  In fact, I wrote the seminal economics
paper on it . . .

The licensing of the community edition, though, "infects" software
shipped with it.  The existence of an open source branch of my
software would be catastrophic for me.

And, frankly, GPL3 is scary.  I'd like to recode my market software in
livecode, which I'd release open source, but I can't do that on the
community edition.  I'll release it BSD, even public domain, but I
won't risk releasing *anything* GPL3  (I think it was a serious error
to use GPL3 instead of 2 for livecode).

If I don't touch the community edition, there can be no claim to GPL3
from the High Church of Emacs on any of my work.



> BTW I didn't say they weren't going to do a commercial version of the server... just
>that it might reasonably be seen as a low priority. LiveCode hasn't got a massive user
>base... the percentage of users using server is small...

Dual licensing can make a lot of sense in certain circumstances (and
it appears that LiveCode, like OpenOffice, is one of those).  This
works because contributions to the community version aren't accepted
without being submitted to the commercial branch.

However, you absolutely cannot make the *paid* version second-class,
lagging behind the other.

>the percentage that really
>need commercial server would be only a handful. The percentage of those that can't
> continue to use the last available commercial version given there's really no
>features added? are there any?

For those doing an application and a web version, this absolutely
locks them into an archaic branch, not allowing the use of any newer
features . . .



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