[Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Erwin Coumans
I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an application distributed through the Apple App Store. This was previously discussed here, but it ignore the a part of the LGPL license about not imposing further restrictions: http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/201

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Jason H
12 2:05 PM Subject: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software? I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an application d

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2012 11.05.13, Erwin Coumans wrote: > Do we just need to trust the Qt developers they won't do this? You can't do that. With the Qt Project, "Qt developers" means every single person who has contributed code to Qt. That's not just one company, but a lot of indivi

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Erwin Coumans
-- > *From:* Erwin Coumans > *To:* interest@qt-project.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:05 PM > *Subject:* [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt > developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed > through he

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Erwin Coumans
gt;> we'll see install clubs and piracy take off again. Or use Cydia. >> <http://cydia.saurik.com/> >> >> -- >> *From:* Erwin Coumans >> *To:* interest@qt-project.org >> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:05 PM >> *Subject:* [Interest] Protection a

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Jason H
org" Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software? (I didn't receive an email, s

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2012 11.57.19, Erwin Coumans wrote: > Are you saying there is a way to release software using Qt under the LGPL > license in the App Store, without infringing? I have no clue. I've never read the App Store's licensing to see if there are restrictions. And even if

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-24 Thread eike.ziller
On 21 Feb 2012, at 20:05, ext Erwin Coumans wrote: > I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an > application distributed through the Apple App Store. > This was previously discussed here, but it ignore the a part of the LGPL > license about not imposing further r

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-24 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
> That said I'm *not* one. But GnuGo & VLC are GPL, which is much more > restrictive than LGPL, so it is easier to "impose further restrictions". VLC's switching over to LGPL: http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html HTH, -mandeep > The LGPL on the other hand *does* allow your application that

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-24 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sexta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2012 10.16.04, eike.zil...@nokia.com wrote: > The thing that will definitely make your life hard when using a LGPL library > is the requirements from section 6 (from LGPLv2.1), which basically > requires you to provide means for users of your application to create