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I thought GPL was incompatible with the App Store? Wasn't VLC famously pulled from the App Store over a complaint about this? I know VLC eventually got back on, but I'm having trouble finding any info about how they resolved the problem.

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Mosh and technologies involved actually have an iOS exception that makes it compatible as long as the resulting project is GPL'd too.

In the case of VLC they had to relicense, so a process very similar to this one.

Does Mosh itself not depend on any other GPL'd code?

Other libraries are system libraries and BSD licensed like protobuf.

So that means Blink is actually dual-license? I was actually a little bit confused about how Blink makes the GPL App-store compatible. It would be interesting to see a blog post or some extended discussion on the website about the licensing issue, both to assure users that Blink is "safe" from being kicked out of the store, and to give some discussion on how GPL can actually make it into the App store. It would certainly be nice to have more iOS software follow Blink's example.

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