I believe this thread started as a result is someone asking if there was a way to recover their work if all they could salvage was a built binary (from community edition). It sounds like there should be a way based on another response in the thread.
Thanks, Brian On Jun 5, 2018, 2:16 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > > Recently I ran off a very simple standalone with the Indy and the > > Community version of LC 8.1.9 > > and cracked both of them open with a text editor. > > > > In neither of the standalones could I access the code. > > > > Presumably this means that a standalone generated with the Community > > version cannot be > > reverse-engineered in such a way that its original code can be read? > > Binding the stack to the runtime engine makes the source difficult to > access, and the objects impossible to modify. > > The requirement of GPL-governed works is that source code is available > in a form that allows modification. > > I would not imagine requiring end-users to sift through bits of a binary > executable would satisfy any definition of GPL compliance. > > Either the source stack files are made available to any user of the > executable who wants them, or the entity distributing the executable is > in violation of LiveCode Ltd's copyright. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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 _______________________________________________ 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
