ProtonMail iOS app goes open source

Re:ProtonMail iOS app goes open source by mimsee on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:29AM (#21406718)

How is Blink Shell: Mosh & SSH Client[1] licensed as GPLv3 on the iOS App Store? To my knowledge that's not the only GPLv3 app on the iOS app store. Many of the projects give a special grant for it to be published on to the app store.[2]

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blink-shell-mosh-ssh-client/id...

[2]: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/blob/raw/COPYING#L702

Edit: formatting, more context, and sources

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Re:ProtonMail iOS app goes open source by colejohnson66 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:27AM (#21407964)

I’m not even sure a grant is necessary. As the author, you can relicense your work whenever you want. That includes relicensing for a certain platform. So, release your GPLv3 source code, but release the “proprietary” version on the App Store.

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Re:ProtonMail iOS app goes open source by greggman2 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:09AM (#21408273)

If you're the sole author yes. If you took any contributions then no unless you got all the contributors to accept your proprietary license for their contribution.

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Re:ProtonMail iOS app goes open source by darkwater on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:21AM (#21408382)

Actually clicking on the "License Agreement" link pops up a copy of the GPLv3 License, so it looks like you can distribute GPLv3 software in the app store (and charge for it!)

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Re:ProtonMail iOS app goes open source by saagarjha on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:54AM (#21407095)

Honestly, I’m not sure the exception is necessary anymore.

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