KDE Connect iOS port

Sascha Zenglein sascha at zenglein-goldbach.de
Mon Jun 6 12:38:44 UTC 2016


Thanks for the nice tips and info. Very friendly.
I'll look into it and maybe i can get something working. Licensing will be tough, I might ask about it in the future.

> Am 06.06.2016 um 03:35 schrieb Markus Slopianka <kamikazow at web.de>:
> 
>> On Monday 06 June 2016 00:25:21 Sascha zenglein wrote:
>> 
>> I already found the beginnings of an iOS port. But neither any code nor
>> anything to install and test. My question now is, if someone can tell me a
>> way to test and contribute to KDE Connect on my iPhone.
> 
> The code is here:
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fyangqiao%2Fkdeconnect-ios.git
> 
> It hasn't been touched since 2014 therefore the state is definitively that it 
> does not use the TLS-encrypted version of the protocol. Updating that part is 
> probably a good place to start.
> 
> The code is in a personal "scratch" repo. As such there is no proper way to 
> contribute. Maybe clone the repo to Github and work from there. If you feel 
> you go somewhere with the code, you can ask a KDE Sysadmin to get a git repo 
> on kde.org.
> The code is dual-licensed. In addition to the GPL (Qiao referred to some 2.1 
> version of the GPL that does not exist, maybe he confused it with the LGPL -- 
> you may want to ask him for clarification), it's also under MPL. This makes it 
> more friendly to an eventual App Store release than GPL only.
> My (obviously non-binding) suggestion is to keep App Store-friendly licensing 
> for new code you write.
> 
> Markus
> 
> 



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