[maturz]

It's weird that this pull request was never accepted by gifsicle.

https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/pull/16

Also check out his other high-quality GIF encoder project https://gif.ski/

Older HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730018

[citilife]

It's probably (in part) due to the last line of the article / post:

> App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You're not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.

[abritinthebay]

Which is, of course, false.

Specific free software licenses have DRM distribution restrictions regardless of if source/non-DRM editions are available. Which of course goes against user freedom too (to have their applications the way they want).

That to me says that it's the licence that is the issue (or needs to be improved).

[pornel]

gifsicle and the lossy version are both GPL-licensed. That's a deal-breaker for Apple (by their own choosing), but not a problem for the gifsicle project.

I think the reason for change not being accepted upstream is that the amount of complexity added exceeds amount of free time the upstream maintainer has.