Re: Adapting Lilypond Rendering Engine for iPad

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:39:14PM -0700, kieran coulter wrote:
>    It seems like they've relaxed those restrictions since 2010, but I could
>    be wrong.

I would want solid evidence of this.  Look into the Battle of
Westnoth fiasco -- not that I blame apple for this.  As far as I
know, their license agreement is clearly incompatible with the
GPL; it was certain Wesnoth developers who knowingly ignored that
and then got burned when their app was pulled.

>    What might be the main obstacles I would run into, and are any
>    insurmountable?

Biggest obstacle: licensing, and AFAIK this is insurmountable
unless you have enough shares to force Apple to change their
policy.  Since their whole infrastructure is built around their
"walled garden", I think you'd need to own at least 30% of the
company's shares before you had any chance of forcing a policy
change.

Sorry.
- Graham