"R. Mattes" <r...@mh-freiburg.de> writes: >> Can ECL be used for a closed-source (at least for the non-ECL >> components) commercial App Store app? > > No, since Apple requires static linking (one might question their > reason for this)
Last time I read Apple legalese, it wasn't even clear that you could distribute in the AppStore a GPL application. It looks like you have to distribute it thru the AppStore with a more restrictive license. If you're the author of the application, you can always distribute a closed-license binary in the AppStore, and distribute your sources under GPL separately (I'm not even sure Apple leaves you the right to put a link to the GPL version from the binary application). In anycase, this wouldn't help iPhone/iPad _users_ since they would need to subscribe to the Apple Developer Program to be able to compile and run your sources on their iDevice, and since Apple reserves itself the right to refuse an application in the AppStore if its features are too close from an existing application (or one Apple plans to sell themselves), it seems to me the GPL is purely nullified by the AppStore. I'd love to see an analysis from the FSF and a statement about this. So my conclusions so far are: - If you're the owner of the code, you must distribute it in the AppStore with a license strictly less free than the GPL, and you may distribute your sources under GPL, but this won't help the users of your iDevice application. - You cannot use GPL libraries you don't own in AppStore software, without obtaining them under a different license. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
