Dr. Hawkins <dochawk@...> writes: > The OSS branch can never get orphaned. The commercial branch can, however ... > > Now I'm musing about ways to deal with that; perhaps an exception that > allows the proprietary standalone to be built if certain events occur? > a cod escrow?
Thank you. I've been waiting for someone to notice this. One of the obstacles to LiveCode's acceptance in the Real World is that there's a single point of failure: what happens if something happens to RunRev? They go out of business (now it's *me* thinking the unthinkable), they get acquired by Larry Ellison, they do the HyperCard thing and just disappear... With a closed source engine and no code escrow we're all out of luck. And that's a serious impediment for any company that's thinking about investing their future in LiveCode as a platform. By open-sourcing the engine we've got several options. The community can take it forward, the code can get forked, our investment is future-proof. The only things that wouldn't be covered are the parts that you would need a commercial license for: stack protection, etc, and that's the same situation we have today. It would be nice if a code escrow arrangement could be worked out for those, but first things first. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ...now that I've seen "cod escrow" I can't unsee it... _______________________________________________ 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
