> just because iOS didn’t support dynamic libraries (so we had to statically link it)

if you develop closed software for a walled garden then relying on gpl is still possible but a rather contradictory philosophy. i guess the alternative would have been developing all that from scratch, or getting it from elsewhere, likely paying for it, which would have made those costs even more prohibitive ... otoh i really don't understand those prohibitive costs because supplying the object code was all you needed. what were those? lawyers?