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

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

The discussion is about GPL and then the author jumps off the wagon and says
it applies also to LGPL "because it is basically the same". This is not
true. LGPL does not force anyone to provide the sources of the files they
link against the library. GPL does.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:15 PM, David Brown <lisp at davidb.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Matt Lamari <matt.lamari at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Thoughts?  Is it possible to sell an ECL-based App Store app?
> >
> >
> > Yes, according to the LGPL you simply have to provide in that or in
> another
> > webpage a binary that can be linked against a more recent version of the
> > library.
>
> Some other perspective:
> <http://michelf.com/weblog/2011/gpl-ios-app-store/>
>
> It may be risky to assume Apple will allow it.
>
> David
>



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