I would have sworn Apple explicitly disallowed publishing apps with LGPL components.
--Stephen On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 07:08:49AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 12:08:28AM +0000, Srayan Jana wrote: > > The specific context I'm thinking of in terms of making a closed source > > application for Guile is something like an application I can release on PC > > (or even the iOS/Android App Stores if possible) > > So like, I dunno, like a chat app like Discord, or a game like Wordle. > > To be clear: it is not /necessary/ that the app be closed source > to run on "PC" (I guess you mean Windows by that), iOS or Android: > there are *a lot* of free software applications which do that. > > One example: vlc [1], which is GPL V2+ (some parts LGPL) and runs > on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, tvOS, ChromeOS, Windows > Phone, various BSD-based systems, Solaris, BeOS, OS/2, and Syllable, > according to [1a]. It's just a question of design and of how many > maintainers step in to make it happen. > > Cheers > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player > [1a] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#Operating_system_compatibility > -- > t
