Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

Mark Wilcox mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk
Wed May 4 14:20:25 EDT 2016


> In a former, not so old, enormous thread dealing with the FOSS license
> and
> trying to understand what it meant in practice, one of the conclusion was
> that *only Livecode can dual license*. Nobody else can do that. And Kevin
> Miller really pushed hard on that point.

Only Livecode can dual license the engine. I think they actually
encourage external/widget/library builders to also dual license.

The argument Livecode have been making is that someone with a community
license only cannot dual license - that basically anything you make with
or for Livecode is a derivative work and you need a commercial license
of some kind if you want to distribute it under anything other than the
GPL. I think they're wrong in this both legally and from a community
building perspective but it's not completely black and white.




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