keram wrote:
On this page it also says:
"Your LiveCode Commercial license ensures that your code is secured on deployment and is not readable by end users."
Does it meant that the code of the stand alone apps for Windows, Android and iOS, that are built with the Community edition can be read by the users??
I'm asking that because somewhere on this forum I read that once you build the app it's not possible to revert it back to the LC script.
keram
Reverting a standalone and protecting your code are actually two different things. A standalone can't be deconstructed. But since standalones can't save changes to themselves, it is very common to release a one-card standalone that does nothing but open other stacks. Those stacks are the actual product, the standalone is just the engine that runs them.
The scripts of stacks are easily read by anyone who opens them in a text editor. All the scripts and their locations are visible and can be copied to another stack by anyone. To truly protect your code, the scripts of those separate stacks must be encrypted, which is what the commercial version does.
I don't use the community version so I'm not sure if those standalones are readable in a text editor. Standalones built with the commercial version are always encrypted. You could drop a standalone onto a text editor and see what's in there.