[MacRuby-devel] GPL and the App Store

[Matt Aimonetti]

I'm not a lawyer so I can't answer your question on any legal basis, but the
goal of the project isn't to corner anyone in a given license.
If you were to find any issues, I am sure the entire team would do
everything in its power to help.

- Matt

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Mike Boone <mike at boonedocks.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to build a MacRuby app to sell on the Mac App Store.
> However, I am concerned about the GPL license on some of the MacRuby
> source code, given what happened to VLC on the iOS App Store.
>
> I have googled around and the only discussion I could find on this
> topic was a brief page at Stack Exchange, which did not have a
> conclusive answer.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7028270/license-of-macruby
>
> Reading LEGAL in the MacRuby distribution is confusing. It would seem
> that all the listed licenses apply if these files are all compiled
> into MacRuby. One of the files is GPL, therefore the whole app would
> have to be GPL, correct?
>
> I know that others are currently selling MacRuby apps in the Mac App
> Store, but I would like to know more about this issue before I spend
> time building my app in MacRuby.
>
> Many thanks,
> Mike Boone.
> http://boonedocks.net/mike/
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