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woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months agoIt’s AGPL. Fine with me but: Since when is AGPL code allowed on the Apple app store?
Comment on The new Mammoth app is a much simpler take on Mastodon | The Verge
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months agoIt’s AGPL. Fine with me but: Since when is AGPL code allowed on the Apple app store?
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve read CONTRIBUTING.md and unless I’ve missed a line by accident, there is no CLA for contributions, so with the first non-trivial 3rs party contribution the entire code base is AGPL with no way to relicense unless it’s negotiated with said contributor.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The (A)GPL has no problems with the app store. It merely requires that users must be able to install altered versions and that’s certainly possible. It’s the app store policies by Apple that forbid GPL apps.
Missing a CLA seems like an oversight, releasing the public code under a license forbidden by Apple’s terms is most likely a deliberate choice to block competing app store submissions. They’d just use LGPLv2.1, Apache License 2, or so.