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Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by steveklabnik »

babo wrote: post #9
steveklabnik wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you on 10.6? If not, you're out of luck.

Fine for a free application, a wise decision.

Fine for any application; nobody can dictate which platforms anyone must support and which they can't.

10.6 is much nicer than 10.5 on a bunch of levels. It's slightly annoying now, but will pay off in the future.

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by sjs »

Rauchg wrote: post #4

If TextMate 2.0 is not released soon (or doesn't meet expectations), MacroMates is in trouble.

Could be, but a lot of people who wanted more than TM 1.5 provides have already gone to Emacs or vim.

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by Zev »

brianm wrote: post #7

Sadly, it is a precious snowflake license (MIT + Custom term) with a very ambiguous custom term: "The Software and/or source code cannot be copied in whole and sold without meaningful modification for a profit." Great to see it semi-open source, and well within the rights of the author, though :-)

The intent seems clear to me; "You can't build + sell the app on its own. But, if you want to use a part of the code in your own app, go for it."

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by itsnotvalid »

I need to retract my previous comments on the other HN post that the communities would just choose over other open source alternatives for Node.js stuff. Well, now this is open-sourced too!

Cheers and happy holidays~!

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by itsnotvalid »

Zev wrote: post #13
brianm wrote: post #7

Sadly, it is a precious snowflake license (MIT + Custom term) with a very ambiguous custom term: "The Software and/or source code cannot be copied in whole and sold without meaningful modification for a profit." Great to see it semi-open source, and well within the rights of the author, though :-)

The intent seems clear to me; "You can't build + sell the app on its own. But, if you want to use a part of the code in your own app, go for it."

Build and use is enough for most people.

But of course things would be very ambiguous in terms of how much means "meaningful modification".

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by savoy11 »

dhbanes wrote: post #14
[deleted] wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not by you.

So I am pretty sure you have your successful open source story to share. Where you saved the queen, anything green, the oxygen, as we know it - and made millions along the way - while slaying bad guys around.

PS. It is easy to spot a clown.

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by callahad »

brianm wrote: post #7

Sadly, it is a precious snowflake license (MIT + Custom term) with a very ambiguous custom term: "The Software and/or source code cannot be copied in whole and sold without meaningful modification for a profit." Great to see it semi-open source, and well within the rights of the author, though :-)

As per Kod 0.0.2's changelog, the special snowflake license was inspired by this blog post: http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/1043407467/selling-open-source

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by djacobs »

Looks nice. One note: It says it requires MacPorts. You should probably say it requires the source-highlight package, regardless of how you get it. (I'm going to install via Homebrew, some might compile it manually.)

Re: Kod.app is open source

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Post by flyosity »

Rauchg wrote: post #4

If TextMate 2.0 is not released soon (or doesn't meet expectations), MacroMates is in trouble.

And by "MacroMates" you mean the singular developer who works on it who has probably already made a small fortune from TextMate 1.x licenses and has said a few times that TextMate development is a "hobby". I don't think he's in any sort of trouble.
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