When writing ChatSecure I followed the logic in this post on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1321681/805882
Since I distribute the object files in question with the app (and my app is open source) I feel that I don't violate the spirit of the LGPL. However, I'm not a lawyer, and I know that some FSF devotees would disagree with me. I have been considered reimplementing libotr in Objective-C and licensing it under BSD as well, but I wanted to wait until after libotr4 / OTRv3 was released. I have had some interest from another developer looking to fund a rewrite of libotr to use the iOS Common Crypto routines. Maybe we could all work together. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner < [email protected]> wrote: > > On May 2, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > On 05/02/2012 09:08 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > I guess that doesn’t make a lot of sense imho. It won’t be usable in the Mac > or iOS AppStores due to licensinc constraints of the (L)GPL. I’m currently > looking for helping hands and some sponsoring to natively reimplement libotr > in Objective-C under a BSD license. > > I would look at what Chris has already done here: > https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS > > > Careful, that uses a few (L)GPL'ed libraries like libgcrypt and libotr, so > putting that code into the Apple App Store is in violation of the terms of > the (L)GPL since the Apple App Store Terms conflict with the GPL. > Distributing GPL software for iOS outside of the App Store is totally > clear in terms of the GPL. > > .hc > > _______________________________________________ > OTR-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev > >
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