Thats what I am thinking too..... I will do my best to find a legal perspective on this.....
didn't Runrev have to ship the first LC Community with something proprietery in it too? I remember seeing a note about it in the installer. or maybe i was hallucinating. Why do my standalones have to be GPL3 too?.... you can't change code in binary.... so isn't it the source files I am obligated to share? I'm pretty sure there is a way to do this. So close. :) Thanks Monte....... I appreciate not taking chances ....I'm not interested in litigation. On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 9:14 PM Monte Goulding via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > There’s some questions here that need a lawyer to answer. > > To start with I think you need to ensure that building CEF with > proprietary codecs enabled does not include anything that has a license > that is incompatible with GPL 3. Otherwise you can’t distribute your > standalone with the modified CEF under the GPL 3. FWIW I have built CEF > with proprietary codecs and due to the complexity of chromium I would still > need to spend a few days reviewing code to know exactly what was included > when I did that. I do know there’s OpenH264 in there which is BSD licensed. > > Then there’s whether the patents infringe on the GPL… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > FWIW if you can satisfy yourself that you aren’t infringing the GPL > distributing the standalone with CEF built with proprietary codecs enabled > then you should just be able to add some notes about that to include with > your source like you would note that when distributed as a standalone it > includes the LiveCode engine and where to find the source and build > instructions for that etc… although again IANAL. > > Cheers > > Monte > > > On 11 Sep 2018, at 10:48 am, Tom Glod via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > So I got a msg back and they are totally down with me shipping the codec > as > > long as I pay the fees for the # of licenses I sell past 100,000 > > > > Correct me if I am wrong, can I not put the code of my application on > > github as GPL 3? and build my standalones using LC with the modified CEF > > files ? > > > > If someone builds from the standalones on github they get the full > > application except the avc / h264 codec in CEF? > > > > Which license agreement does that break? > > > > Is it also not an option to have community version and then a > non-community > > version like LC does? I am really down for paying the 40 cents or 25 > cents > > per paid user whatever it is. > > > > Is there any way to this work and still put my .livecode file on github? > > ...but ship standalones with the modified CEF build? > > _______________________________________________ > 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
