Open source, closed source, and the value of code

[Monte Goulding]

> On 1 Mar 2016, at 5:05 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why not publish your Apps for iOS
> using a Publisher Partner?
> 
> Maybe an iOS Publisher Partner 
> selected among our very own 
> LiveCode fellow developers.

We discussed this during the original Kickstarter and I believe the discussion led to a clause in the commercial license that we could not build standalones for people unless we had done work to the value of at least an Indy license. Something like that anyway…. The idea being it would be more logical for the Community user to get their own license rather than work around the GPL by using a build service. I would hope that if someone is discovered running a build service they would have their license cancelled promptly. 

On the whole this conversation seems to have steered in the direction of “How do we deliver proprietary apps while using the GPL version”. I’m hoping we can steer it back because such a discussion does the platform and the generous terms with which we can use it a disservice. The simple answer to all these issues is to use Community if you want to distribute under the GPL and use Indy or above if you want to distribute under any license you choose. If you aren’t sure it probably means you need Indy.

Cheers

Monte