As far as i know, Apple never said that they pulled out the VLC App from the AppStore because the GPL license was incompatible, nobody knows why was pulled out . Just because some idiotic Nokia employee doesn't like Apple doesn't means that you can't publish GPL software in the AppStore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store says "Software licensed only under the GPL (because the App Store Terms of Service impose additional restrictions incompatible with the GPL)[8][9]" but if you pay attention to those references [8] and [9] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-January/007973.html You will notice that those are just personal opinions and obscure references without any legal ground. There's another very popular GPL app in the AppStore http://mplayerx.org/ And I am sure that there is more GPL software. Please notice that the Apple Store is just another distribution channel for the end user. You can always share a link to the the source code. You can even pack a tarbal with the source codel inside the Bundle (why not?). On Dec 8, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > On 8 December 2011 22:17, Alex Sarmiento <alexsarmie...@me.com> wrote: >> Right now i am adding support for Mac os X Lion native fullscreen , file >> choosers and unified title and menu bars to the whole KDE and Krita apps. >> It works and feel better that way under MacOS, with a more native and >> integrated experience. It only takes some minor tweaks to the source code >> >> So i thought that it would be nice if i can just could buy some of this >> apps directly from the mac store, like Okular,Kate and Krita. >> >> That would be a nice founding channels for these projects. >> >> Take for example CyberDuck (http://trac.cyberduck.ch/), which has a GPL >> License and is being sell at 24$ in the >> AppleStore. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cyberduck/id409222199?mt=12&ls=1. >> >> Im not really sure what it takes to put an App in the AppStore, but if those >> CyberDucks guys can, maybe Krita could earn some extra money that way too. > > Alex, I understand your motivation but for some license > incompatibilities with the AppStore, please see [1] first. > > Then look that CyberDuck may be not the very similar example if it is > dual-licensed (easy in a small development team). My guess - correct > me. > > [1] http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you/ > > -- > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) > KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
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