License

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License

shazron opened this issue 12 years ago · comments

Thanks for this. I'm wondering what the license is for this code, and if you have decided, you could include a LICENSE file in the repo as well.

Andrew Griffiths · Answer 1 · Fri May 18 2012 11:03:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I haven't put a license in but feel free to use and abuse it however you wish, there's no warranty of course!

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On 18/05/2012, at 9:13 AM, Shazron Abdullahreply@reply.github.com wrote:

Thanks for this. I'm wondering what the license is for this code, and if you have decided, you could include a LICENSE in the repo as well.

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Andrew Griffiths · Answer 2 · Mon May 21 2012 10:22:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

good idea about the license file btw, I've added one!

Shazron Abdullah · Answer 3 · Mon May 21 2012 13:12:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks, I'm afraid that because of the license this lib will be ultimately of no use to people that want to use it for their apps in the iOS app store however, because it is LGPL. All (non-Apple) libraries need to be statically linked in iOS, and if they statically include your lib, they have to open source their code as well because of the LGPL.

This may be your intent, I don't know, but generally most libraries out there for iOS are either MIT/new BSD/Apache v2.0 licensed, and may require attribution, and that may be enough for most authors. For example, I see in your other project you use JSONKit, which is Apache v2.0 licensed.

Andrew Griffiths · Answer 4 · Mon May 21 2012 14:46:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Certainly wasn't my intention, I've updated it to use the Apache V2.0 one instead. thx for bringing to my attention.