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If you have citations of GPLv2 or GPLv3 apps that are in the App Store, I would be highly interested. As far as I can discern, Linphone is provided in the App
by mehhh 7y ago
If you have citations of GPLv2 or GPLv3 apps that are in the App Store, I would be highly interested.
As far as I can discern, Linphone is provided in the App Store under a proprietary license, VLC had to relicense as LGPL, and GNU Go is still not on the App Store.
- saagarjha 7y agoI don’t think anyone’s tried it, because it was certainly not allowed a couple of years ago. But the language that the FSF used to point to is no longer there, so I’d like to hope that it might be possible today.
- dwaite 7y agoMy understanding is that Apple doesn't ban GPLvX code - that doesn't mean other people won't write Apple and ask the app to be removed, claiming the app developer did not have proper copyright license.
- dwaite 7y agoVLC-iOS is licensed GPLv2. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-ios/#license https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-ios/#license
- mehhh 7y agoThe App store version is almost certainly using MPLv2, which is a file based copyleft license. Much weaker than GPLv2.