On 5/16/11 12:33 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
If your project involves Livecode/Runtime Revolution it CANNOT be
released as Open Source as the
Livecode engine is Closed Source.
I fell foul of this about 5 years ago when I offered a slew of my EFL
programs as freebies to
the Edubuntu arm of Ubuntu; they turned them down flat because they were
not completely
open source (even though I was prepared to bundle the original stacks
with them).
In fact IFF your project involves some sort of code (such as TightVNC)
that obliges you to
release your end product as Open Source, and also involves the Livecode
engine, you are, to be rather
coarse, 'sha**ed' (whatever consonants you supply you will end up with
something fairly
filthy), as Livecode stuff ISN'T Open Source; and sitting on a fence is
rather uncomfortable, and it is
difficult to see exactly how you could do that in that sort of situation.
Until someone develops an Open Source clone of the Livecode engine (all
rather too much work
for precious little reward) ALL stuff developed with Liecode cannot be
described as Open Source.
Sorry.
Wow! That is pretty disappointing. Yeah, the whole thing is pretty
much written in LiveCode. There is a little PHP in there, and then of
course the TightVNC implementation.
So at this point should I just release the source to Rev Online?
I'm going to contact the folks at TightVNC and see if they'll allow me
to bundle their VNC app with the 'openly available code' submitted to
Rev Online. Who knows, maybe they'll make an exception.
Thanks Richmond!
Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com
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