• @woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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            31 year 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.

              • @woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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                11 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.

                • @dukk@programming.dev
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                  11 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.

                  • @woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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                    11 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.

    • @ANIMATEK@lemmy.world
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      171 year ago

      Why wouldn’t you like developers to make a living? Do you expect to get a high quality app for free? Grow up.

      • @eran_morad@lemmy.world
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        -201 year ago

        You want to be marketed to on your phone that you paid for and continue to pay for, cool. I don’t give a fuck. Why you think others should want that is fucking bizarre. I’ll continue to use software that doesn’t invade my privacy and shill bullshit.

        Also, work on your fucking reading comprehension, because at no point did I insinuate I wouldn’t pay for software. Christ on a shitstick.