Kay C Lan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> If Apple has recently changed their policies so they no longer >> have the distribution limits that had made it incompatible with >> the GPL, that would be welcome news. But I wasn't able to turn >> up any info suggesting that, so the items in the Wikipedia article >> you linked to seem to be well-intentioned people who simply don't >> follow the news from the FSF, and Apple staff who apparently have >> a tough time keeping up with the ever-changing and inconsistently- >> applied rules there. ... > I read your links 1 and 3, cause I'm and odd sort of guy, and all I > concluded from it was that it was GPL participants (VLC coders in > one case) that requested Apple remove certain GPL software, and Apple > complied because it was cheaper and easier than going to court over > it. As you say, Apples inconsistently-applied rules, to me do NOT > seem to specifically target rejection of GPL software. > > As far as I can tell LiveCode Community will allow me to write an iOS > app and as long as it includes stick figures and fart noises it is > likely to be approved by the App Store reviewers. For my part, in > accordance with the GPL I would include a link where anyone could > download the 'source' stack for their own modification. At which > point, as long as I, Runrev, or someone from this List does not > complain to Apple, then it's likely to live a long and highly ignored > life at the App Store.
Could be, but as we've seen with VLC and other GPL-governed apps, any such app is just one complaint filing away from being dropped.
I can't claim to be a legal authority on such matters, and as such I just see what I see and pass it along; I'm not in a position to recommend that people submit GPL-governed works to an app store that has pulled such works.
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