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

[David Brown]

On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> 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.

I don't necessarily agree with the author's conclusion.  But, what
really matters is what Apple would end up deciding, since they control
all distribution.

David

> 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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