Yes - this is a strange one! Warning - those of you that dislike lawyers skip this email :)
"Apple won't accept any GPL apps" - the obvious thought is that it's those crafty closed box Apple people again... where in fact it seems that Apple are not enforcing anything - it's the open source people who are complaining, filing orders to get apps pulled. And it is not really directly to do with the code not being open - but a side effect of some of the terms of the app store restricting distribution to 5 computers etc In loosely speaking there is a bit of a clash in legal contracts - a sort of side effect that is actually not in anyone's particular interest. Except of course RunRev :) That is I think it best to view this as a case where RunRev commercial licenses make it easier for us to get things done, it is a "service" they provide (and will continue to provide) that allows us to get around a lot of these bugs and hassles with open source, while allowing us to develop, work with, use the business arguments we need with big contractors - in short it's a healthy compromise. I'd expect the GPL to move towards allowing app stores in the future - providing there is another place where these restrictions are not in place - and I would also expect Apple to slowly work with these changes in license and adopt their terms - so this commercial advantage for RunRev won't last forever. On 1 February 2013 20:05, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 2/1/13 12:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > As being a dev tool, there will be a certain percentage who will want to >> use it for proprietary deployment. >> > > And then there's the part how Apple won't accept any GPL apps in either > the App Store or the Mac App Store, so anyone developing Apple products > will need to purchase the commercial license. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ 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
