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? It's LGPL, so as long as you link dynamically, it's fine for proprietary software to use it. A lot of commercial proprietary software in the VFX industry does this (Nuke, Katana, Mari, Maya, Houdini, etc).

IDK a lot of proprietary developers don't understand the LGPL and are scared by its copyleft. They like how simple the MIT license is.

Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.

> Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.

If you're shipping a proprietary application that links to LGPL libraries in accordance to the license, that's fine.

It's GPL applications that the App Store bans.

Not a lawyer but LGPLv3 contains the anti tivoization rule, which might cause issues with the mandatory signing.

IIRC, Qt has been licensed under the LGPL for many many years, so you can develop proprietary software that dynamically links to Qt no cost.

I guess there will be people going to say that QT is LGPL, which allows people to use in proprietary applications. But I think there must be people who just want permissive alternative, and Electron is MIT, so it is indeed more viable (liceise wise).