I recently made an iOS app that I’d like to distribute the source code for. I was initially going to license it with the GPL, but I read that apparently Apple’s App Store isn’t compatible with the terms of the GPL. Is there something that’s typically recommended by the FOSS community for this situation (other than just not distributing an iOS app)?

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[–] WizardGed@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're going to have a hard time getting anyone to say in any concrete way that one license or another is compatible because apple has never stated which licenses are compatible or not. they only point at the terms of service and tell you to figure it out yourself and be prepared for apple to remove it at any time if they disagree with you/your lawyer.

IANAL but in general you can choose a wide variety of permissive licenses like: MIT/ISC Apache 2 or the BSD (2/3) clause licenses

Copyleft licenses are pretty much incompatible based on most agreed upon terms but maybe you have a fleet of lawyers better than apples that are willing to fight it out :)

[–] slamphear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that’s what I was wondering about. Based on some initial research I did, I went with MPL-2.0. However, I get the impression that non-copyleft licenses are typically frowned upon in the FOSS community, so I wanted to see if there was a better option.