Re:GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with...
by amake on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:46PM
(#31915893)
Hi. That author was me, but my app is Orgro (https://orgro.org), not Orgzly.
The relevant libraries are https://github.com/amake/org_flutter and https://github.com/amake/org_parser.
Re:GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with...
by lf-non on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:06PM
(#31915640)
I am curious: why shipping on iOS store makes it incompatible with GPL ?
I mean I respect your decision to make it open-source or not, but why does the store matter ?
Re:GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with...
by vhanda on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:28PM
(#31915775)
GPL seems to be incompatible with the iOS store as that places some extra restrictions on it. [0] [1]. Some GPL apps such as KDE Connect have a special exception in their license for the ios App Store. [2]
[0] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827624
[2] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios/blob/master/License.md
There is basic support because of another open source org mode app - Orgro (https://orgro.org), - the author was even gracious enough to relicense his code away from GPL, so that I could use it. since GitJournal is shipped on the iOS store and GPL would not be compatible.
However, GitJournal internally expects everything to be markdown + yaml. So anything else are hacks I've done on top. At some point, I want to refactor and remove this hard dependency on Markdown.
Edit: I mistakenly thought the app was Orgzy. I've updated the comment. Sorry.