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, -- Charles. Sent with Sparrow On samedi 8 janvier 2011 at 00:06, Benjamin Horst wrote: > On Jan 7, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > > I was told there is an issue with mac and the GPL and LGPL licensing. not > > sure what exactly though. > > > > > > Some quick reading shows the issue is not at all clear. For example, the > Wesnoth community has debated this in depth, but the ultimate result is that > Wesnoth is currently available in the App Store (for iOS), and even charges a > small fee. (Just as Fabian Rodriguez suggested earlier in this thread.) > > An article on their community discussion is here: > http://lwn.net/Articles/396535/ > > If you have iTunes, you can see the app store page for Wesnoth here: > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battle-for-wesnoth/id340691963?mt=8 > > Thus, it does not appear that Apple would block LibO because of our LGPL > license (Wesnoth is GPL v2). The FSF is very unhappy with the App Store, but > this does not appear to be a dealbreaker if we wish to go ahead with it. > > -Ben > > Benjamin Horst > bho...@mac.com > 646-464-2314 (Eastern) > www.solidoffice.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
