[QGIS-Developer] iOS prototyping

Peter Petrik peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk
Tue Oct 23 23:20:28 PDT 2018


Hi,

I am not a lawyer, but I think it we cannot distribute GPL licensed
software through App Store (e.g.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement)
But
we can still look back at floppy disks distributions :)

Peter


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:27 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> Wow! This is awesome stuff…..what is your take on the licensing side of
> things (in terms of GPL/LGPL code deployed on iOS)? I for one look eagerly
> forward to being able to make / run QGIS based apps on my iOS devices so
> thanks so much for your work here!
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 23 Oct 2018, at 15:50, Peter Petrik <peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we have finished prototyping study to prove that QgsQuick based
> application can be run on iOS platform (iPhone, iPad). We managed to run
> application on iPad with in-memory vector layer. To have a proper demo, we
> would need to be able to compile other providers as static libraries, which
> can take some time.
>
> For those brave enough and with a week of spare time, here is the code
> that can be used to compile it.
>
> https://github.com/lutraconsulting/qgis-quick-demo-app-ios
> https://github.com/lutraconsulting/OSGeo4iOS
>
> Thanks to https://www.gigaclear.com for funding the effort.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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>
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