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flyingrub / Alea-Live-Wallpaper-Android

Minimal Live wallpaper - Android
GNU General Public License v2.0
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License? #1

Open AndroidDeveloperLB opened 6 years ago

AndroidDeveloperLB commented 6 years ago

Apache2 ?

flyingrub commented 6 years ago

it's GPLv2 I don't know why there isn't the file in the repo, lets add it right now :)

AndroidDeveloperLB commented 6 years ago

This means that if I want to take a piexe of it for my closed sourced app, it must become open sourced too ? :(

AndroidDeveloperLB commented 6 years ago

I don't think there is much reason to make it have this license,when there are other libraries that offer the same for a more developer-friendly license: https://github.com/jreese/gifpaper https://github.com/peejaybee/NyanWallpaper

flyingrub commented 6 years ago

Open source allow collaboration and improvement of software and I don't see any drawback to it. Why wouldn't you open source your app ?

AndroidDeveloperLB commented 6 years ago

Like most things in life, it doesn't only has advantages. It can have disadvantages. One of them is that the "bad people" can take the code much more easily, and make their own app with all of the efforts I've spent for so many years, claiming it's theirs, etc. There is a known phenomena of duplicate apps out there, where people took an APK and replaced the images , ads keys, and IAP keys, and took it for themselves. What I do open source is some key functions. Not the whole app. I do this by either putting in Github or on StackOverflow. If a developer is decent, he can do it all by himself, and also find all he needs on those places, just like I did.

Maybe when I don't have time anymore for my app, I will open source it.

AndroidDeveloperLB commented 6 years ago

But why won't you open source this library (with a nicer license that is), though, if it's so similar to others that are open sourced?