Kay C Lan wrote:
Whilst I agree with 'your' interpretation of Peter's situation, that is not
what Richard wrote. He said:
all code running in the same engine is governed by the license for that
engine.
If a plugin is made with the Commercial Edition, it can be run within the
Community Edition under GPL or any GPL-compatible license.
Yep, that's what I wrote, though I should note again that I'm neither a
lawyer nor Kevin - that's just what I see in major GPL-governed systems
like Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla.
The lack of a specific definition for "derivative work" has been a very
contentious issue in the Joomla world and elsewhere - I covered this in
detail last year:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2013-December/196463.html>
I've already linked to the Wordpress page on this - here's the Drupal one:
7: If I write a module or theme, do I have to license it under
the GPL?
Yes. Drupal modules and themes are a derivative work of Drupal.
If you distribute them, you must do so under the terms of the
GPL version 2 or later.
<https://www.drupal.org/licensing/faq/#q7>
I'm not Drupal's legal counsel, I'm just sitting on the sidelines
enjoying the popcorn, noting only my own personal opinion and how I
apply it to my own decisions.
For an ideology that is suppose to remove restrictions on software it's
surprising how confusing, restrictive and detrimental it can be.
It is indeed confusing because the ways code can co-mingle in memory are
not only vast but ever-changing, eluding a simple definition.
But whether it's "detrimental" is a matter of taste. The spirit of the
GPL is very clearly about sharing, and doing so in way that ensures that
those who choose your work and distribute things made with it also honor
the sharing spirit you've expressed by choosing the GPL.
There is no requirement to use any particular software, and for those of
us who choose to use LiveCode our choices are made even broader by its
dual license - we can pick the one that best fits our intentions and
goals for the application at hand.
Like the old saying goes, there's no disputing taste. Folks who like
the GPL tend to choose it, folks who prefer something else choose
something else. I use a wide range of licenses for my own work,
depending on the goals for a given project.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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