[pmelendez]

> Because it is GPL3, it won't be supported by Google on Android, by Apple probably anywhere, or by Microsoft anywhere.

Why not? As far as I know, GPL3 let you to dinamically link without having to open the source code the resulting software.

[versteegen]

You're thinking of LGPL. GPL has no such exception for dynamic linking.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic

[skrause]

You can't link proprietary software with GPL libraries, only with LGPL libraries.

For but Apple it's not even a licensing concern. Apple doesn't have a problem with the GPLv2, but doesn't touch the GPLv3 because of the patent clauses that it contains. The bash in OS X is a version from 2007 because that's the last GPLv2 version of bash. But Apple has no problem including git because that's also GPLv2 and not v3.

[anon1385]

>Apple doesn't have a problem with the GPLv2, but doesn't touch the GPLv3 because of the patent clauses that it contains

It's not the patent clauses that are the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8868994