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Textual is a good example of this working IRL for me. Their app is one of the best IMO IRC clients on MacOS, is open source [1] and is also sold on the App stor

• vegetablepotpie 5y ago
  So in the case of Textual, it’s a convenience for the user to download from the App Store than to clone and compile and get through code signing. If I’m broke, have a MacBook, and know how to build and modify a project, I can get textual for free, which is a nice option to have. On platforms with app stores I can see this being viable for developers. I am aware of VLC being removed from the iOS App Store years ago because the license agreement for the App Store said that developers had to have sole control over the source code. I’m wondering if this requirement was removed, which would allow Textual to exist on the platform with its licensing. I can see licensing an open source project, for profit, as BSD being riskier than GPL because I could take their project, add my own additions, publish the product on the App Store (under a different name and branding) and never release the source code. At least with GPL, I would be required to share my modified versions of the source code with users of the product, which could be reintegrated into Textual.
• crazysim 5y ago
  Pixen was the opposite. It was open source and sold on the App Store but then people just took the code and put their own low effort Pixen-likes on the App Store. No more OSS Pixen.