Project Browser vs App Browser (was "script scope variables inexplicably becoming unset")

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks for that clear explanation Mark.  Your method sounds like exactly
what I'm looking for.  As far as the license, should I start by checking
out the Creative Commons license?

Pete
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Richard-
>
> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 5:21:36 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Once you've sold it, any open source license lets that person
> redistribute
> > freely.
>
> While I should know better than to argue legal matters with a lawyer...
> You're wrong about that.
>
> The situation you're describing here and in your paper (I *did* skim
> it... note that it's a dozen years old now and things haven't kept
> still) is more akin to a viral license, and is the main objection
> raised to using something like one of the GPL variants.
>
> What I do for open-source licensing for PowerDebug and PowerTools is
> distribute an unlocked stack. People still have to purchase the stack
> from my website and download it from there using their registration
> code, but they are free to examine the code, modify it, learn from it
> (ha!), amuse themselves, without restriction. They also don't get
> updates without downloading them from the website, again using their
> registration code. The right to distribute it themselves in any form,
> modified or no, is explicitly denied by the license.
>
> This is open source software but not free software (in either sense of
> the term).
>
> It's similar in one sense to music or video distribution - when you
> buy media it's not locked up so that you can't get to it... you get
> the right to listen or view yourself, but you don't get the right to
> distribute it to others, in spite of the fact that it's technically
> possible to do so.
>
> Creative Commons offers something similar in various forms of their
> licensing agreements. You can choose what restrictions, if any, you
> want to place on the documents you distribute.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
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