Re: [xmlvm-users] Publishing XMLVM applications

[Hansi R. <su...@su...>]

hey!

The message that we, the XMLVM team, want to give to you is that we would
> never do such a thing, if it would be possible, which it isn't.The LPGL
> should, with small modifications, be in accordance with AppStore rules.

right, and i'm more than amazed by how open your are about this.

i don't mean to be a jerk about this or doing pointless discussion that go
nowhere, but i think that picking a
license that expresses your intentions best is key, otherwise any promise
made now might be hard to live up to.

this seems to be what amount of work the lgpl brings with it if one
_actually_ wants to be compliant:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2010-August/026708.html
sure, ffmpeg is known for it's hall of shame and their overal policy towards
license violations.

however, if i understand correctly the freedoms that come with the lgpl
apply to
anyone, not just the devs. anyone must have the ability to exchange the
xmlvm portion of an app with a newer version.
in some cases this is completely impossible because xmlvm mixes together
different code bases into single files which
makes it impossible to just exchange the xmlvm part later on.

imho the best would be to use a bsd license for the output modules (by that
i mean the template files and
runtime libaries). everything else could even be gpl without problems.
as i wrote a month or so ago, a license exception like the one bison has for
certain source files would also
be just fine.



best, hansi.


So the bottom line is that XMLVM developers should not worry that their apps
> might get pulled because of licensing issues.
>
> // Sascha
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Hansi Raber <su...@su...> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tm...@ik...> wrote:
>>
>>> Wasn't the problem with VLC (the withdrawal of which from the App
>>> Store seems to have caused this discussion) that some of the copyright
>>> holders were opposed to it being offered on the App Store?
>>>
>> afaik that was a completely different issue,
>> some important parts of vlc are licensed under the gpl (e.g. the h264
>> decoder).
>> the problem was that the appstore imposes restrictions stronger than the
>> gpl allows, thus apple decided to pull the app.
>>
>>
>>
>> anyways, here's a good read:
>>
>> http://huyzing.com/2009/08/24/compatibility-between-the-iphone-app-store-and-the-lgpl/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> best, hansi.
>>
>>
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