Sorry - release the source-code of things you write in LiveCode you distribute to others.
Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Aug 2017, at 00:21, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Just to pay reference to the comment about LiveCode - I missed it the first > time around... > > We (LiveCode Ltd.) did not 'give away' LiveCode. We released it under a > software license that has strings. > > The GPL requires (subject to interpretation by lawyers - and a court of law) > you to also release your source code of the things you write in LiveCode. > > There's no such thing as a free lunch - there's always some sort of payment > somewhere - even if that payment is 'for the good of all' rather than in any > form of 'currently understood currency'. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 2 Aug 2017, at 23:24, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 8/3/17 12:03 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >>> Richmond Mathewson wrote: >>> >>>> No, I don't think we have to respect Apple's policy at all. >>> >>> A similar view might ask whether the DevaWriter license terms need to be >>> respected, or LiveCode Ltd.'s, or Stephen King's, or the protections >>> afforded any creator of an original work. >>> >> <snip> >> >> LOL. >> >> I have just changed my Devawriter licensing system so that each >> instantiation of it that I sell is tied to the MAC address of >> an individual computer. Therefore there is nothing to respect, a chain is a >> chain, and if someone manages to spoof Mac Addresses >> on a large scale to use my program the fact that they would go to that >> trouble proves it's a program worth having! >> >> I have made my "licensing" system as hard as I can: I'm sure it can be >> broken: whether it is worth going to that bother remains to be seen; >> after all you can have a site licence for 10 machines at $200. >> >> If I really wanted to make "my fortune" programming computers I wouldn't be >> tinkering around in our spare bedroom at 55 anyway . . . >> >> The reason I have changed it is because I know of someone who purchased my >> Devawriter 3 years ago and now has copies all over the place: >> my bad, I should have taken a bit more trouble: at least some people are >> finally getting their heads around "Sanskrit As it Should Be": >> >> http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/home.html >> >> Apple's policy is "just" Apple trying something on. A EULA is NOT a legally >> binding agreement: if you choose to abide by it you >> can feel "awfully" moral, much in the same sort of way I haven't fathered 27 >> children with 27 mothers simultaneously (which, oddly >> enough, is not illegal) makes me fell that I'm slightly more moral in some >> respects. >> >> I bought a 10 year-old Intel iMac about 8 months ago. I had the system >> install disks from a Mac laptop of my wife's that went bang about 3 years >> ago. >> Now I was probably breaking some sort of agreement by using those disks to >> get my iMac going - possibly not "meant" to install on another Mac other >> than the one they were bought with. Morally, as the one the disks came with >> a dead computer I could see nothing wrong with using them to get >> another, similar computer running; especially as I could find no way to >> purchase Mac OS Lion disks from Apple. >> >> LiveCode give away the Open Source version of their product. . . >> >> Stephen King . . . well, if you really have to read his books you can borrow >> them from the library . . . I read 3 of them in about 1984. >> >> Love, Richmond. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
