[tdf-discuss] Re: Mac App Store

 Ben,


To be frank I would be very tempted by the Mac App Store. We would gain a lot of traction and 
perhaps revenue. I read the links you provided with attention but what I can gather is somewhat 
controversial or at least would require some sort of legal workaround. Let me explain what I see:
- FSF thinks the Mac App Store policies are in contraddiction with the GPL and points to specific 
clauses in it.
- the neat and clean way to do this is to relicense the software completely. We cannot do this -one 
of the reasons is that we don't want a copyright assignment- but even if we had one we would still 
be hindered by the Oracle copyright in it.


Last but not least, at this Westnoth is in conflict with the FSF. I usually consider myself a free 
and independent thinking person but I also know that the FSF is our friend. We talk to them. Why 
making ennemies? 


Just my 2 euro cents,


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Charles.
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On samedi 8 janvier 2011 at 00:06, Benjamin Horst wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>
>
> > I was told there is an issue with mac and the GPL and LGPL licensing. not sure what exactly 
> > though.
>
> Some quick reading shows the issue is not at all clear. For example, the Wesnoth community has 
> debated this in depth, but the ultimate result is that Wesnoth is currently available in the App 
> Store (for iOS), and even charges a small fee. (Just as Fabian Rodriguez suggested earlier in 
> this thread.)
>
> An article on their community discussion is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/396535/
>
> If you have iTunes, you can see the app store page for Wesnoth here: 
> http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battle-for-wesnoth/id340691963?mt=8
>
> Thus, it does not appear that Apple would block LibO because of our LGPL license (Wesnoth is GPL 
> v2). The FSF is very unhappy with the App Store, but this does not appear to be a dealbreaker if 
> we wish to go ahead with it.
>
> -Ben
>
> Benjamin Horst
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