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Keemotion / TS2MP4

TS2MP4 allow you to convert TS files to MP4 files on your iDevice.
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GPL license requires apps to be legally incompatible with the App Store - is this intentional? #10

Open SterlingOnLoop opened 8 years ago

SterlingOnLoop commented 8 years ago

Would it be possible to re-license TS2MP4 under a more App Store friendly license?

If this is the same tsdemux, it appears to have a much more permissive BSD-ish license.

smadbe commented 8 years ago

From what I remember, we reuse complete part of GPL code, so we were forced to do it GPL.
If you keep it as a lib and just wrap the lib, it should not contaminate your code.

SterlingOnLoop commented 8 years ago

Unfortunately, that's not how the GPL works. As I understand it, the entire app must be GPL if it includes any GPL parts, and wrapping a library makes no difference. You may be thinking of the LGPL.

smadbe commented 8 years ago

Considering you provide the lib in your binary on the AppStore, you're probably right. So, yes, the lib is probably not compatible for AppStore. Feel free to rewrite it or use it out of AppStore! :-) So, to answer your first question, you can check but I'm pretty sure we were using part of GPL code, the TSDemux part.