Right, a commercial Qt license or using Cydia instead sound reasonable. The answer(s) in the original thread ( http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-September/035667.html) didn't seem to address the issues between (L)GPL license and Apple App Store properly. Thanks! Erwin
On 21 February 2012 11:32, Jason H <scorp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Get a commercial license? > > Or have a developer friend side-load it for you. Thanks to Apple's DRM > we'll see install clubs and piracy take off again. Or use Cydia. > <http://cydia.saurik.com/> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Erwin Coumans <erwin.coum...@gmail.com> > *To:* interest@qt-project.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:05 PM > *Subject:* [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt > developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed > through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software? > > I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an > application distributed through the Apple App Store. > This was previously discussed here, but it ignore the a part of the LGPL > license about not imposing further restrictions: > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-September/035667.html > > Apple's Terms of Service impose restrictive limits on use and distribution > for any software distributed through the App Store, and the GPL and LGPL > doesn't allow that. > From the LGPL license: "You may not impose any further restrictions on > the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." > See > http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement > > It seems that if any Qt developer would send an infringement complaint to > software distributed through he Apple App Store, Apple would pull the > software, just like they did with the VLC player. > (http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/vlc-enforcement) > > Do we just need to trust the Qt developers they won't do this? > Or is there anything that protects Qt users (who want to distribute their > software through the Apple App Store) from such infringement complain? > Thanks, > Erwin > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > >
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