I went and got a development key and I have to say this program could only improve should you open source more or all of your plugins. Just because its open sourced doesn't mean you can't just develop your own official branch on the side. I have to agree with Snail on this one, I have watched much if not all of his tutorial videos and they have been a great help to me in trying to understand clickteam and how important fully functional plugins and objects are. I don't see a reason in not allowing developers to get source code access to official plugins they can release unofficially with a clear warning:
1. The official plugins are viewable/installable within Clickteam itself.
2. The unofficial ones can only be gotten from the forums. or through an "Unofficial Plugins" listing in the manager. Each made unique with the name of the creator Infront of them.
[FanDev] Array Plugin
[FanDev2]Array Plugin
etc
3. Would keep the program's older versions from dying off should old versions begin to lose support and because of this it may make users trust Clickteam more and invest in newer versions which may mean greater sales and usage. I mean Clickteam dev isn't cheap, people that want to use it have specific things in mind and the more options for what plugins to use or modify the better. Especially for those who have payed for it but still lack options that never come.
Starting from scratch for a specific plugin when all you want to do is improve whats already there is illogical.
Especially when there may be many of them, I don't see how it would hurt Clickteam at all. Open sourcing things like extensions would only make it more popular to use as devs would share their improvements and allow everyone to make better products.
Besides all of this, when you open source your extensions that you already sell with the program you still retain all rights, its just now people can modify it for use within their products with their licenses nothing changes, if you want to manage it better just force people to look for the extensions on your forum and in the terms of use/modification add a rule for appending all end-user modifications with the name of the user to differentiate the versions. [UserClickTeam1]Array Plugin, or even call them something else and also have a rule for stating that clickteam is the owner of the original while they are at it, to make sure people know and also make them provide their source aswell. Thats what open source is about, you give and you get. And then you can also have something there for picking and choosing leaving you with the option to collect what is basically free work from devs/users who wish to contribute unofficially with features for extensions you may wish to add yourselves.
I hope Clickteam considers the future of this great program, its really lightweight and doesn't have a ton of nasty EULA to bog it down, by the way it is strange you cannot distribute extensions improved using ANDROID SDK Seeing how android is open source?
