[Rd] R on the Cydia Store

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Dec 9, 2014 6:38 AM, "Apps Embedded" <apps.embedded at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have published an Android app called R Console on the Play Store since
> Décember 2013.
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsopensource.R
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsopensource.Rpremium
>
> In the mean time, we have developped its equivalent app for the App Store.
> We released it on march 2014. We have been approved from this date by Apple
> to publish it world wide.
> Recently, we learnt that GPL app are not compatible with the App Store
> distribution licence.

What I would like to write here, would fall under "this is certainly
not a topic for R devel", so I refrain.

However, I can say that it's likely your problems wouldn't have stopped there;

[R] R on the iPhone/iPad? Not so much....a GPL violation
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-June/240901.html

/Henrik

>
> Thus we decided to remove the iOS app from the App Store several days ago.
>
> We are thinking of publishing the same app published under Cydia with a
> freemium model.
> Its licence would be GPL v3.
>
> What we would like to do under Cydia with R Console is to have the
> following behavior :
> - free version will be able to run recommended packages and graphics are
> not enabled. A small ad banner is present on top of the app.
> - premium version will be the same as the free version except the ad banner
> will not be present anymore and 3 compilers will be integrated into the app
> in order to be able to compile and run most of the Cran packages from
> source.
> - graphics may be added in a second step.
>
> The app will be considered as a bundle of open-source tools. This bundle
> will be under the Gnu General Public Licence version 3. Each open-source
> tool which contributes to the overall bundle will stay in its original
> licence (R is GPL v2 for instance) but the bundle will be GPL v3.
>
>
> >From your point of view, do you see any legal issue with this project under
> Cydia for jailbroken iOS devices?
> >From a trademark point of view, is the name of the apps "R Console Free"
> and "R Console Premium" ok ?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Apps Embedded Team.
>
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