[Tux4kids-discuss] Licensing Information

[Brendan Luchen]

All,

> I generally would favor GPLv3+ (mainly because I favor GPL and v3 is 
> the current version, not so much that I'm worried about "Tivo-ization" 
> or want a specific patent clause).  The biggest practical disadvantage 
> is that GPLv3 is unequivocally not compatible with Apple's App Store 
> terms.  According to many, including the FSF, GPLv2 isn't compatible 
> with the App Store either, but the issues seem to be such that no once 
> can complain to Apple except the authors of the software in question, 
> and Apple doesn't seem to care unless/until the authors try to complain.

Eew. Apple is always making things difficult. What's the upshot, then? 
Does it mean that ("technically") we can't or shouldn't submit GPLv* 
software to the App Store, or that if we do, and some evil developer 
were to steal, modify, repackage and profit from TM, that we'd have no 
legal power to stop it?

I guess a multiple license scenario, like what Qt does, could enable the 
iPhone version to have a compatible license, but I have no idea what 
that entails.

> One thing is pretty clear, however - tuxmath has always been a GPL 
> project, and we don't have the legal standing to use the source except

Think the rest of your message got cut off? AFAIK, though, Deepak's 
project is a complete rewrite and isn't bound by existing source. I 
could be mistaken.

-Brendan