On Dec 9, 2014 6:38 AM, "Apps Embedded" <apps.embed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We have published an Android app called R Console on the Play Store since > Décember 2013. > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsopensource.R > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsopensource.Rpremium > > In the mean time, we have developped its equivalent app for the App Store. > We released it on march 2014. We have been approved from this date by Apple > to publish it world wide. > Recently, we learnt that GPL app are not compatible with the App Store > distribution licence.
What I would like to write here, would fall under "this is certainly not a topic for R devel", so I refrain. However, I can say that it's likely your problems wouldn't have stopped there; [R] R on the iPhone/iPad? Not so much....a GPL violation https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-June/240901.html /Henrik > > Thus we decided to remove the iOS app from the App Store several days ago. > > We are thinking of publishing the same app published under Cydia with a > freemium model. > Its licence would be GPL v3. > > What we would like to do under Cydia with R Console is to have the > following behavior : > - free version will be able to run recommended packages and graphics are > not enabled. A small ad banner is present on top of the app. > - premium version will be the same as the free version except the ad banner > will not be present anymore and 3 compilers will be integrated into the app > in order to be able to compile and run most of the Cran packages from > source. > - graphics may be added in a second step. > > The app will be considered as a bundle of open-source tools. This bundle > will be under the Gnu General Public Licence version 3. Each open-source > tool which contributes to the overall bundle will stay in its original > licence (R is GPL v2 for instance) but the bundle will be GPL v3. > > > >From your point of view, do you see any legal issue with this project under > Cydia for jailbroken iOS devices? > >From a trademark point of view, is the name of the apps "R Console Free" > and "R Console Premium" ok ? > > Thanks for your help. > > Apps Embedded Team. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
