On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Not quite sure what the issue is with the open source version. Is it not > OK > to have closed source add-ons to an open source package? For instance, for > firefox or open office? > Hi Peter, The problem is that the Community version of Livecode does not include the code to run password protected scripts so the only way for me to provide an open source version would be to remove the password protection. At that point, I can't provide a demo version since anyone could remove the demo checking code so anyone could download it and never pay for it. Most developers would not do that but it's nevertheless a possibility. Not sure how the other closed source add-ons to open source apps handle it. I have played around with the idea of providing lcStackBrowser as a standalone program that would communicate with the IDE via a socket and a front script. The front script would not be password protected since all it would do is intercept messages, send notifications to the standalone, accept messages from the standalone and pass them on to the IDE. But that's a huge change to the architecture and I don't think it's worth my time, although it would be an interesting intellectual exercise! Anyway, glad you're trying the demo. Feel free to contact me with questions or problems. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> _______________________________________________ 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
