So to sum it up : 1. Situation is a big mess :: all stacks published at revOnline are ab initio protected by copyright, which is in apparent conflict with the purpose of revOnline, which is to share code ideas and code. 2. Authors SHOULD specify the terms and license they agree upon 3. Clearly, taking a revOnline stack and distributing a commercial version without the original author consent would be illegal. 4. Open Source Side effect : If authors do not do not care to specify an Open Source License, the stack cannot be simply modified and re-published with OS Livecode, as the second "user" will have no clean right to do so, except if he asks the original author for authorization or license to do so. That should be cleared a minimum at the revOnline publishing stage otherwise one could end up with a bunch of mixed spaghettis.
5. The protection of libraries remains to be clarified. ----------- Question :: what if I open a revOline stack, find some handlers and mechanism I like to use elsewhere, just copy part of the script from the editor, modify a little to suit my precise needs and environment. Copyright applies to a complete work and does and should not protect "ideas". The purpose of revOnline is to promote the communication of "ideas" of implementations... so we are on a kind of frontier. So that practice of using revOnline as a source of inspiration should not break copyright rules??? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/revOnline-and-Open-Source-tp4668100p4668212.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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
