On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:51:24PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 11:23 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: > > I tend to take a pragmatic approach to these kinds of hotbutton topics. > > Everyone needs security, regardless of OS of choice (or requirement). > > However, it's David's code, if it needs a different license, then it's > > up to him. I'll ask once (if needed), respect the answer, and move on. > > It's mostly Intel's code rather than my own, in fact. So relicensing it > would involve a fair amount of bureaucracy. shudder. Let's avoid that. > Especially as I don't think I'd be keen just to switch to a MIT-style > licence; I'd prefer to keep it LGPLv2 but with as minimal an exception > as possible for allowing it to be present in the app store. right, I'd prefer not to change it at all. > Tracking down the non-Intel contributors and getting their permission > too would be the easy part :) VLC did it, but that was a much larger project (more contributors / more people to track down copyright holders), and they only did a subset of the code, libVLC. > > Thanksfully, from the looks of VLC, that won't be needed. > > I'm not entirely sure what the VLC situation is. Is it back in the Apple > app store now? http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/11/22/vlc-lgpl.html I just installed VLC Streamer today. So, yes. I'll send an email to Chris Ballinger (author of SecureChat, GPLv3+ app in the AppStore) and ask for some details as to how he navigates those waters. thx, Jason.
