[mosh-devel] GPL license and iOS

[Alex Chernyakhovsky]

Hi James,

While I cannot speak for the rest of the mosh development community,
my impression is that there is not any interest in relicensing to a
permissive (MIT or BSD) license. JuiceSSH on Android gets around this
by having the mosh code be a separate binary and launching it from
within the app, if I recall the architecture correctly. Perhaps a
similar strategy can be used on iOS.

Sincerely,
-Alex

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:54 AM, James Osborne <jamesjohnosborne at me.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> That's true, but it still requires the iOS developer supply source code for their entire App. I can't see many being willing to undertake that - especially not if they have a paid app. There must surely be a way around this impasse? (Other than the developer re-implementing the protocol for themselves?)
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
> 60% of the time, it works every time
>
>> On 5 Nov 2015, at 20:13, Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Mosh already has an IOS App Store waiver:
>> https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/COPYING.iOS
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> -Alex
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:57 PM, James Osborne <jamesjohnosborne at me.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any chance someone in the mosh team could give the guys at Panic (http://panic.com) permission to use your GPL code in their iOS app? It seems licensing restrictions are limiting the availability of iOS apps and, in Prompt, Panic has the best ssh app IMHO.
>>>
>>> 60% of the time, it works every time
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