[Ecls-list] ECL's license and commercial IPhone apps

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Matt Lamari <matt.lamari at gmail.com> wrote:

> Assumptions:
> 1.  iPhone apps must statically link libraries, can't use dynamic linking
>

Who cares? LGPL does not talk about dynamic or static linking separately. It
talks about libraries and linking.


> 2.  An ECL-using iPhone App will need to link in ECL runtime elements.
>

No problem. Build a version of ECL that is statically linked. The iOS port
supports this.


> 3.  Apple would pass the app and let it onto the App store.
>

This is not our business but I doubt there is any problem about this, for
commercial use of LGPL software is not forbidden.


> With these assumptions, say an app, FoobarBlasters, was made with ECL
> and put on the app store. . . .
> Is compliance with ECL licensing possible at this stage - if so, what
> would that take?  [...]
> Published FoobarBlasters binary that can be dynamically linked with a
> dynamic ECL (not possible if assumption correct).
>

Remove "dynamic" and you'll have it. You only need to provide a version of
your program, typically as a statically linked library, that somebody else
may link with another version of ECL's library. Note that in order to
perform this linkage *no source* is needed. The linker does not need header
files, just a compatible binary.

Juanjo

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