On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Per Tunedal <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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).
>
I'm not the one who has to take this decision, but doing it just because
stupid Apple doesn't want us to use GPL doesn't sound like a strong enough
reason for me. I mean, I insist that it's not me who has to take the
decision of what license to use, but neither Apple, right?
>
> Would it do any harm if the project offered an iOS port for $10? And
> used the income for the development of Apertium?
>
You wouldn't probably sell too many copies. Not for that price and without
a good marketing campaign at least.
> 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--
> > --
> > <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around?
> > <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you
> >
> >
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