Obviously, Peter. Brahmanathaswami and I are well aware of it. The
point, however, is that if you have the commercial license, you're
still releasing the source, but in obfuscated, rather than compiled,
form. So, the question remains, why would one buy a commercial license?
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Op 19-jul-2014, om 2:37 heeft Peter W A Wood het volgende geschreven:
Hi Mark
Surely the difference between the open source and commercial
versions is that under the the terms of the GPL if you distribute a
LiveCode generated HTML5 application you must make the LiveCode
source available.
Regards
Peter
On 18 Jul 2014, at 22:24, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille@economy-x-
talk.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Kevin. I'm glad that no CGI engine is used.
I did read that the engine will be "compiled to JavaScript". The
website also says that no plug-in is needed and that the app will
run in the browser. Both statements say nothing about the server.
The website shows "no install" in big letters and states that the
end-user doesn't need to install any software. Nowhere it is said
that the developer doesn't need to install any software on the
server. It might help if the website explicitly said that no CGI
will have to be installed and that only the HTML5 files, (text
files and perhaps media files), need to be copied onto a server.
Pehaps it is all clear to native speakers of English, but a more
explicit wording of the website just might convince some non-
native speakers who are now reluctant to support the HTML5
initiative.
I still wonder about the closed nature of the HTML5 files. It is
probably possible to write a converter, which converts the JS to
something readable. Even without such a converter, one would be
able to download the files and put them on another web server,
perhaps with a few small modifications. Therefore I too wonder
what a commercial HTML5 license can do for a company. I'm curious
what Heather will answer Brahmanathaswami on this matter.
Obviously, obfuscating and licensing are two different things. In
my previous e-mail, I only meant to say that obfuscation and
licensing could offer opportunities that make closed-source
licensing worthwhile for both RunRev and LiveCode users.
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On 17 jul 2014, at 22:35, Kevin Miller wrote:
This has been set out on the web page for HTML5 and on the video.
It is not a CGI. It renders client side in the browser, without a
plug in.
Technically yes, you can look at the JavaScript in a browser.
However
given the complexity of it + obfuscation you won¹t realistically
be able
to make much sense of it. There is a whole world of difference
between
obfuscated/unreadable JavaScript protected by copyright and the
GPL, which
requires you to upload the stacks for your entire application with
readable, editable and redistributable code.
I hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Kevin
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