<div dir="ltr">Just randomly, if IBM licensed GEOS for $100K / year for five years, would that be acceptable? <div>One can write a lot of free software for $100K / year.</div><div>It's not uncommon for copyleft projects to self-support with relicensing deals. Wonder what our community members think about that.<br>P.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Greg Troxel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank">gdt@lexort.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
James Turner <<a href="mailto:james.turner@weather.com">james.turner@weather.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> We would like to know if alternative licensing is available for GEOS,<br>
> as the object distribution requirements for the LGPL don’t really make<br>
> any sense in iOS applications.<br>
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</span>The key issue is that the permission granted is intended to be<br>
conditioned on the user being able to do some things, and Apple chooses<br>
not to let the user do those things.<br>
<br>
The notion that "the iOS rules don't make sense" is an equally valid<br>
viewpoint in this case.<br>
<br>
Perhaps you could ask Apple to let users share Free Software that<br>
they've obtained from the app store, with each other, and to add a way<br>
for people to rebuild LGPL code, relink it, and install it on their<br>
devices :-) Obviously I don't expect you to do that, and I don't expect<br>
the request to be at all succesful, but this is basically why the Free<br>
Software community is not receptive to "could you change your licensing<br>
so I can distribute proprietary software via a mechanism that is<br>
explicitly hostile to Free Software".<br>
<br>
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