[mosh-devel] Mosh License

[Cabel Sasser]

Dear Mosh Team,

We make a fairly popular SSH client for iOS (iPhone, iPad) called "Prompt".

Recently we've had a couple of people requesting we support Mosh, and we're very excited by the prospect. Our engineer started digging into the details until he hit…

…the license. :)

I thought I'd pass along the note that, being GPL, we'll be unable to use or implement Mosh, since iOS really has no concept of "dynamic libraries" that we could open source individually, so using Mosh would require us to open source our entire commercial project.

I know license philosophy is complex, and this could very well be your intent, or you could feel "not our problem! Talk to Apple or find a new business model!", which is totally 100% valid. :) I just thought I'd bring it up.

Thanks for putting together a very exciting project!

Best,
Cabel
Panic