Hi,
what about going a bit commercial? Many companies use a dual licence
model: GPL + proprietary (e.g. the small Swedish company that made MySQL
started that way).

Would it do any harm if the project offered an iOS port for $10? And
used the income for the development of Apertium?
Unfortunately, that would not fit into GSOC though. We would have to
finance it some other way. GOTEO? http://goteo.org/ Or some other crowd
funding?

Most Ipad/Iphone users are the opposite of hackers: they are happy with
the limitations of the system. An Apertium-app for Ipad must be
accessible in the App Store to reach the audience.

Yours,
Per Tunedal

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014, at 0:08, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
--snip--
> 
> First of all, the basic problem with an iOS port is that it would not
> be distributable through the App Store (its terms are
> GPL-incompatible). This is the reason why an iOS port was not pursued
> in the past, and nothing has changed: see
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
> 
--snip--
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> <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around?
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