Re: Substitute classes

[David Wetzel]

Hi

I ported the baseadd stuff to iOS. 
My MacBook pro is currently on repair (nvidia issue) when it's back I can start 
committing. 

Gnustep is LGPL. 
So there is no issue. 

Dave

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 16.03.2011 um 17:18 schrieb Gregory Casamento <address@hidden>:

> Yes, it is possible.  You can use the Objective-C 2.0 runtime to
> change the implementations of certain methods in those classes:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ObjCRuntimeRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/method_exchangeImplementations
> 
> More things you should be aware of...
> 
> What you should be aware of is that GNUstep is LGPL 2.1 or later
> licensed software.   While simply linking with GNUstep's libraries
> wouldn't cause you to need to release your software under the LGPL,
> directly incorporating code from the project would since it would be
> considered a "combined work."
> 
> Normally, this would be fine (assuming you're okay with releasing your
> code), but Apple's terms of service for the App Store place
> restrictions on distribution which is not compatible with the LGPL/GPL
> license.   While Apple, to my knowledge, has never removed an app
> because it was GPL'd or LGPL'd, the members of the VLC project
> voluntarily removed their app from the store due to licensing concerns
> raised by the FSF.
> 
> While I realize this is not the answer you were hoping for, I hope it
> helps somewhat.
> 
> GC
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Brajkovic <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I want to substitute certain Cocoa classes, in particular, those related to 
>> distributed objects ("DO"), with GnuStep classes. How do I do that?
>> 
>> Secondly, and this probably has the same answer as the first question. I 
>> want to include certain GnuStep classes into a iOS app, again those related 
>> to DO. iOS does not have DO functionality but I want to include for a 
>> particular app I would like to develop. Is that possible?
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> 
> 
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