Comments (13)
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that in most jurisdictions, software is automatically proprietary (covered by ARR copyright). So unless and until there is a license that says otherwise, the iThing version of Delta Chat is proprietary. I doubt this is the outcome you want, so I respectfully suggest you reopen this issue until you can agree on a free code license that suits your needs and works with the iThing store.
FWIW I'd really like to see an anti-trust action against Apple for their anti-copyleft policy. It creates headaches for a lot of devs of cross-platform apps, who prefer to use a copyleft license.
from deltachat-ios.
@r10s not sure what is the plan here (we talked about it I think a long time ago), probably we also should check all included libraries here https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/blob/master/Podfile ?
from deltachat-ios.
I checked all the ones I added, and they should all be MIT or MIT compatible.
from deltachat-ios.
from deltachat-ios.
As I mentioned before, the GPL is unfortunately in direct opposition to the AppStore: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6109/is-it-possible-to-have-gpl-software-in-the-mac-app-store
from deltachat-ios.
Also note, that all contributors should ack in written form in an issue that they are okay with the license being used (and on every other license change).
from deltachat-ios.
from deltachat-ios.
A quick google search leaves me to believe that it is complicated and I am unclear on what the actual legal situation is:
from deltachat-ios.
@hpk42 I think what Friedel said (that all contributors have to agree in written form to the licence and possible licence changes) is correct and independent of any agreement assigning usage rights that might/will be signed between e.g. me and Merlinux (because the copyright, at least according to German law, is always attached to the actual natural person, not with orgs (only usage rights can be assigned)). This also simplifies things because you can treat all contributors the same and let them sign the same kind of document.
ATM, this should be relatively simple still because there are only 6 contributors I think (does anyone know why humanlikedisaster is missing from the overview here: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/graphs/contributors?from=2017-11-05&to=2019-01-22&type=c )
from deltachat-ios.
from deltachat-ios.
ah, understood, makes sense. So the contributors could give licencing rights to Merlinux and Merlinux would then decide which licence to use (and decide on future licence changes).
from deltachat-ios.
from deltachat-ios.
The MPL 1/1.1/2.0 are failed licenses, and to my knowledge prevents inclusion of anything that is GPLv3 (like the Android client), as opposed to the opposite. MPL gives less protections, and more needless restrictions than the GPLv3+ or AGPLv3+, from the perspective of ensured user freedoms. The license file/version info is still missing, and that is a good opportunity to in the very least dual-license it, like http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
E-mail will be around for a while, and coat-tailing to Apple's terrible practices in that time-frame creates more problems than it solves.
One of which is the ability to effectively being able to re-license (like the above) when it is convenient.
from deltachat-ios.
Related Issues (20)
- gallery memory usage leads to crashes sometimes HOT 1
- allow QR code scanning from "New Chat" dialog
- stop showing email-address in chat titles HOT 1
- Make setting display name mandatory when creating new account
- show sum of all unread messages in all accounts on app icon's badge
- Title-view in Chat is broken on iOS 16
- improve status message for "Invalid Unencrypted"
- Send Reaction-view is not visible for long messages HOT 1
- Messages disappear after short long-press
- allow creating invite-links in-app
- Register to handle i.delta.chat links
- add "Settings / Advanced / Read System Address Book"
- "New Contact" not shown by default
- No app tab in "All Media" for new chatmail accounts HOT 1
- 0xdead10cc exceptions HOT 1
- swipe-to-reply in "Saved Messages" does not stage quote HOT 1
- degration: video chat invitations rendered weirdly
- VideoInviteCells don't show reactions HOT 1
- show "Select more" in read-only chats
- why is videochat-invitation view type nil?
Recommend Projects
-
React
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
-
Vue.js
🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.
-
Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
-
TensorFlow
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
-
Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
-
Laravel
A PHP framework for web artisans
-
D3
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉
-
Recommend Topics
-
javascript
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.
-
web
Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.
-
server
A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.
-
Machine learning
Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.
-
Visualization
Some thing interesting about visualization, use data art
-
Game
Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.
Recommend Org
-
Facebook
We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.
-
Microsoft
Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.
-
Google
Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.
-
Alibaba
Alibaba Open Source for everyone
-
D3
Data-Driven Documents codes.
-
Tencent
China tencent open source team.
from deltachat-ios.