[mosh-devel] Mosh License

[Keith Winstein]

Hi Cabel,

Thanks for getting in touch. I think we'd be happy to see mosh on iPad
if there is anything your engineers can recommend that would let us
help you. Changing the license isn't possible, but if you can
recommend some steps to help us interface with your code in an
arms-length manner, we're happy to try and help.

Unfortunately I know next-to-nothing about iOS, but we do have some
local experts who have mosh working on iOS. I also don't really
understand the licensing situation and I'm not sure if it's clear --
is it true that Apple flatly forbids GPLed code even to be shipped to
iPad? That could be a showstopper.

Best regards, and hope we can find a way to work together,
Keith

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Cabel Sasser <cabel at panic.com> wrote:
> 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
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