On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote:
> 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. > > No authority either, and whilst I whole heartedly agree with an earlier comment by you "I would find it disturbing if the explicit intentions of the creator of a license were not given weight in how that license is interpreted"; I'm also a big believer in democracy. I wonder just how many VLC contributors wanted VLC to remain at the App Store and whether it was just Rémi Denis-Courmont who didn't. Sure that then opens a can of worms as to Rémi's 1,000,000 lines of code versus 1,000 other contributors of 100 lines of code each, but hopefully you get my point, that in a GPL community effort it appears that a single person can force all the others to follow 'their' will. In some sense I consider it paradoxical that Rémi appears to have applied his own restriction on the distribution of VLC (the exact thing he's complaining about) by saying it will not be distributed via the Apple App Store. But that it is all beside the point. The original poster indicated that it is forbidden to publish open source to the App Store, which is not the case. Apple is more than happy to have open source software on their site but will also remove software, both open source and not, if a valid complaint is raised. In line with your statement, I would be most upset if I created an app with LC Community, 100% my own work, had it accepted on the App Store, had the source stack freely available for others to download, had a link to Runrev where anyone could download LC Community, was more than happy that I was complying with the GPL, and then had a Rémi Denis-Courmont complain to Apple that my app wasn't in compliance with his interpretation of the GPLand asked Apple to remove it. I have no doubt that Apple would remove it, but I wouldn't be angry at Apple! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
