On 08.02.11 10:08, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Ross Bencina wrote: > >> Morgan wrote: >> >>> SuperCollider -- GPL licence, would require that I open-source my app >> >> Are you sure this is the case? even if you run scserver in a separate >> process (assuming you can do that on iOS) and call it from your own code via >> OSC without using sclang? I don't know either.. but it might be worth >> checking further. > > Yes, it is 100% totally OK to have two peices of software, one GPL > and the other non-GPL, running in separate processes and communicating > via a pipe, a socket or stdin/stdout.
that covers the "i don't want to open-source my app" part but it doesn't help with the "apple doesn't want GPL apps in their store" part, because you would still have to distribute an scsynth binary with your application - under the terms of the GPL. the known precedents make it a risky undertaking trying to distribute _any_ GPL'd application through the app store, because apple might decide to take it out in any moment; not a sound foundation to build any business model on ... <sk> -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
