On 12/04/2013, at 12:26 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > I was under the impression that a Commercial version of LC is the Community > Edition of LC + the ability to password protect stacks. There is nothing in > Community that is not in Commercial.
Yes > > Why would anyone with a Commercial license for LC want to work inside the > Community Edition. I only found a reason today... I can only test engine changes in the community edition apparently... not really sure why. > Also, if I understand the registration authentication process, when you > start LC up, it phones home, checks your status, Yes, that bit's just asking for someone to fork the IDE, not sure why RunRev haven't based this login around a service like revonline but luckily I don't need to make these decisions. If it were me I'd quickly change it to Login to revOnline or skip... then make the services the login is for more compelling. > and in Skip's case I'd say > the response is correct, it states you are a Commercial license holder. > This does not prevent you from releasing OSS, just like the Community > Edition. You just have the choice. Well I don't remember Skip saying exactly where he was seeing it. I thought he was saying it stated that he was using commercial which he wasn't. > > I'm saying this from a Productive User's point of view, not from the aspect > of whether I can delve into the Engine source code and fork off my own > version of LC suitable to run of Mac OS 7.6.1 on Motorola 68030 chips. In > this case, register with GitHub, download the source files, crack open > Metrowerks CodeWarrior and have at it. But again, my understanding is, that > if you did this, and your work met with Runrev standards, such changes > would be Incorporated both into the Community and Commercial editions of LC. Right, if you contributed it would. It's the same source. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ 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
