My apologies for the misunderstanding. I thought we were all still talking 
about HTML5 deployment with a small digression question regarding iOS. Somehow 
I missed the part where it got steered off into every other platform :)

Sean Cole
Pi Digital


> On 25 Mar 2020, at 23:34, William Prothero via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> What I was thinking of was distributing a fairly basic educational 
> application, then adding features and lessons as life goes on. Sounds like it 
> would depend on how extensive the features were. Perhaps lessons would only 
> trigger a problem if they required the addition of significant new features. 
> Hmmm…..
> Best,
> Bill
> 
> William A. Prothero
> https://earthlearningsolutions.org
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 2:23 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/25/20 1:58 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>>> 
>>> However there are two rules which must be followed:
>>>  1) Downloaded code must not allow the app to access any more system 
>>> provided APIs that it could before.
>>>  2) Downloaded code must not allow the app to 'morph' (as Richard put it) 
>>> into something even slightly unrelated to what it was at the point of 
>>> review; nor should it add significantly different features (particularly in 
>>> terms of UI).
>>> In practice conforming to (1) is easy - you aren't allowed to download LCB 
>>> extensions, loading them at runtime, which use FFI to access system 
>>> functions.
>> 
>> My reading of 1) is that LCB extensions that use FFI are allowed as long as 
>> they don't expand the attack surface by introducing new system api calls 
>> that the app doesn't already use.
>> 
>> But then I'm not in a position to make, review, or enforce those rules.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark Wieder
>> ahsoftw...@gmail.com
>> 
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