I want to note in case I don't have time to respond to all your emails individually that I REALLY appreciate the time all of you have taken to think about my question and respond. Thank you very much. -Morgan
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Stefan Kersten <s...@k-hornz.de> wrote: > 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 > -- ================================ Web: http://www.morganpackard.com Music/Art: Latest album: Moment Again Elsewhere iOS app Thicket available on iTunes store. ================================ -- 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
