Hey,
Can you add Anki to Mac App Store? I prefer to use sandboxed applications on my MBP.
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Edit: You right, sorry about that
I might be mistaken but the question seems to be about distributing Anki desktop ver.
yes that’s correct, I mean Anki should be sandboxed to protect users…
The App Store is not compatible with the open source license Anki uses.
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there is a lot of open-source application that were migrated to App Store (such as Keka)
Why is this not the case for Anki?
IDC about add-ons, I just want regular anki similar to anki mobile with import functionality (and nothing else)
Keka is not Open Source
The source was closed a few years ago after being wrongly used. To that date (maybe 2011?) no contribution other than translations were made, so it had no impact at all over the years
Open Source – or did I remember this wrongß · aonez/Keka · Discussion #1627 · GitHub
Apple does not permit GPL licenses, and Anki has a strict version called AGPL. Most open source apps you see in the Apple Store are MIT or Apache which are permissive licenses, and they can work with Apple Store terms of service, which isn’t the case for GPL
There could be an app store exception
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