Rev licensing - post factum rulings ???

[Chipp Walters]

Jacque,

You seem to be the person who best understands this. Can you answer me 
the questions below (as two emails to Kevin at RunRev are still awaiting 
an answer)?

We all know that the new Rev Media app is supposed to work with 
templated solutions. I believe one of them is a slideshow presentation. 
 From the front page of RR's website:

"Right out of the box it includes templates for creating kiosks, 
presentations, adventure games, portfolios and more."

So, can I legally create an application, say a presentation application, 
which generates my own slideshow stacks, and I bundle it with a very 
simple player so my users can run their saved slideshow stacks and the 
whole thing is built so the user never directly enters any Transcript? 
It would seem to me, this app I described above is in direct competiton 
with Rev Media.

Furthermore, can I legally create a Home stack application, kinda like 
HyperCard, where users can build very simple apps like an address book 
or recipe database, all w/out scripting (like HC)? Each stack they save 
can be opened and edited in my original HClike application. This is the 
HyperStudio scenario of which I imagine Marielle may have been planning 
on building.

Now with DreamCard becoming discontinued, it appears that my 'Home stack 
app' described above, no longer represents competition for RunRev, as 
it's specifically targeted at those who are NOT scriptors.

So, what is RR's license policy on both of these? This whole licensing 
issue is of great interest to me and I'm hoping to better understand the 
boundries. I'm sorry you feel much of this is 'misconstrued', but I 
think it's a very important subject for now and future RR developers.

best,

Chipp

J. Landman Gay wrote:

> It is hard for me to believe how misconstrued this licensing discussion 
> has become. It seems so very simple to me. The rules are straightforward:
> 
> 1. You can't create a competing IDE. This has always been the case.
> 2. You can't create a generic, public "player" application.
> 
> Everything you describe in your situation is perfectly fine. RR does not 
> require a customized splash screen on any app you create. RR does not 
> require anything at all different than what you have been doing all along.
> 
> The only change -- which isn't really a change, but is now being 
> enforced -- is that you cannot create a generic player app that is 
> distributed for the sole purpose of providing "player" capabilities for 
> stacks unrelated to your own software.
> 
> Aside from StackRunner (which is Ken Ray's product, not Richard's) no 
> one else in the history of Revolution has ever created such an animal 
> and no one else is affected.