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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think Apple’s terms are problematic.

      The VLC people had to contact many authors to relicense libVLC to LGPLv2.1 because it would otherwise not be compliant to Apple’s terms. Surely the details are documented somewhere.

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      • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • dukk@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From the README:

    Feel free to take a look around. We are not yet taking patches as we still have a little bit of tidying up to do. When we do, there will be a contributor license agreement.

    So yeah, looks like there will be a CLA.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So yeah, looks like there will be a CLA.

      So hostile, asymmetric licensing…

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