Re: Lilypond on iPhone

[Arjan Bos]

On 4 feb 2010, at 21:53, Dave Addey wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I’m wondering if anyone has built or tried to build the Lilypond library for 
> the iPhone platform, to render engraved music on an iPhone-OS-powered device? 
>  I’m considering this for an upcoming project, and wanted to ask a few 
> questions before diving in to trying it myself.  Here goes:
> 
> 1) How do you rate my chances of getting Lilypond to compile for the 
> ARM-based iPhone OS, especially given the number of libraries it depends on?
> 
> 2) Would there be any licensing issues in using Lilypond (and dependent 
> libraries) in a paid app on a closed platform such as the iPhone?

IIRC, the iPhone developer license states that it does not allow any 
interpreters on the iPhone. That's how they keep flash off the iPhone, but also 
for example, a Commodore 64 emulator. And since, as we all know, you can do 
anything in lilypond, thanks to the guile interpreter, my guess is that a 
LilyPond iPhone App won't make it to the App Store.

But it would be a nice challenge to get it working!

Arjan