Why not license it under an appropriate license that would allow us to
put it in the app store? would that mean we would need to remove the GPL
or can it be dual licensed to go on the app store?
On 01/08/2011 01:46 PM, Charles.h.Schulz wrote:
Ben,
To be frank I would be very tempted by the Mac App Store. We would gain a lot
of traction and perhaps revenue. I read the links you provided with attention
but what I can gather is somewhat controversial or at least would require some
sort of legal workaround. Let me explain what I see:
- FSF thinks the Mac App Store policies are in contraddiction with the GPL and
points to specific clauses in it.
- the neat and clean way to do this is to relicense the software completely. We
cannot do this -one of the reasons is that we don't want a copyright
assignment- but even if we had one we would still be hindered by the Oracle
copyright in it.
Last but not least, at this Westnoth is in conflict with the FSF. I usually
consider myself a free and independent thinking person but I also know that the
FSF is our friend. We talk to them. Why making ennemies?
Just my 2 euro cents,
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