Least Authority July Update

[Greg Troxel]

Florian Sesser <florian at private.storage> writes:

>   - Will it include GPLv2 code?
>
>
> No:  This uses the new Haskell client libraries which have permissive
> licenses (3-Clause BSD, LGPL, etc - most of the code can be found at [1]).
> The Private.Storage Mobile code base, on which this is building, is
> licensed GPL-3.0-only with an additional permission for app stores [2].
> Greetings,
>
> Flo
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/tahoe-lafs
> [2]
> https://gitlab.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs-mobile/-/raw/main/COPYING.APPSTORE

Thanks for replying.  That all sounds compliant then.

Personally I find it really unfortunate to accomodate companies that
systematically prevent Free Software, especially by GPL3+exception.  If
you are ok with non-Free derivd works (which is what comes out of the
apple store), then I think it's best to just use a BSD license.  But at
least the additional permission requires the source to be available on
the side, so I can understand why you did this.