Mono Relicensed MIT
Mono Relicensed MIT
Posted Apr 6, 2016 23:33 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: Mono Relicensed MIT by Cyberax
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Let me repeat, Apple may be forced to disclose their proprietary code if they allow 3rd party applications into their App Store.
You mean, like Google is forced to disclose their proprietary code because they allow GPL applications to be sold through the Google Play Store? Yeah right.
Posted Apr 7, 2016 1:07 UTC (Thu)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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Mono Relicensed MIT
You mean, like Google is forced to disclose their proprietary code because they allow GPL applications to be sold through the Google Play Store? Yeah right.
The relevant Android code (that most play store apps link to) is not proprietary. It is Apache-licensed. Some of the APIs connect to proprietary stuff like Google Play Services, but I believe the "system library" exception would apply there. (But then it would to Apple's iOS too.) Plus in Android's case there are two levels of linking -- you link to the open-source and Apache-licensed AOSP, which has APIs to connect to a proprietary Google Play Services; I doubt any court would claim that the proprietary stuff is thereby "infected".