Selling Krita through Apple AppStore

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 8 December 2011 22:17, Alex Sarmiento <alexsarmiento at me.com> wrote:
> Right now i am adding support for Mac os X Lion native fullscreen , file
> choosers and unified title and menu bars to the whole KDE and Krita apps.
>  It works and feel better that way under MacOS, with a more native and
> integrated experience. It only takes some minor tweaks to the source code
>
> So i thought  that it would be nice if i can just could buy some of this
> apps directly from the mac store, like Okular,Kate and Krita.
>
> That would be a nice founding channels for these projects.
>
> Take for example CyberDuck (http://trac.cyberduck.ch/), which has a GPL
> License and is being sell at 24$ in the
> AppleStore. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cyberduck/id409222199?mt=12&ls=1.
>
> Im not really sure what it takes to put an App in the AppStore, but if those
> CyberDucks guys can, maybe Krita could earn some extra money that way too.

Alex, I understand your motivation but for some license
incompatibilities with the AppStore, please see [1] first.

Then look that CyberDuck may be not the very similar example if it is
dual-licensed (easy in a small development team). My guess - correct
me.

[1] http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you/

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