Rick rumbled, > It would be nice if the company were willing to provide the final version of > the Community > version under an MIT license instead of GPL since they will no longer be > supporting it at all, and > it marks a true fork in the road from the codebase going forward.
While it sounds nice, and would address a certain need, it simply isn’t practical. I wrote the seminal economic paper on the economics of open source for the firm. A BSD license release would be downright suicidal, as it could be a “most of the way there” stepping stone for a commercial competitor. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
