On 9 December 2011 02:24, Alex Sarmiento <alexsarmie...@me.com> wrote: > 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
Please note, this attitude is not welcome here. I provided you link to facts. Calling people that actually co-develop software (Nokia contributes to Calligra a lot) idiots tells something about yourself. And yet it's the software that you intend to use and/or deploy. So please reconsider how you treat people. To achieve the goal one needs to figure out 'what it takes to put an App in the AppStore' first. > 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. You have not provided any evidence that all the isses have 'no legal ground'. This suggests that the *GPL licenses have no meaning and application for you and instead you look at the licensing in a really liberal way. Even if only ONE issue is valid, distribution is not legal and *GPL says it's up to any author to request removal. In the example of VLC it was the author who used this very freedom. If anyone should be accused of doing any harm it's not the author using his own freedoms. I give you one example: forcing non-commercial use for the software clearly breaks the license: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html "MAC APP STORE PRODUCT USAGE RULES Except as otherwise set forth herein, (i) If you are an individual acting in your personal capacity, you may download and use an application from the Mac App Store (“Mac App Store Product”) for personal, non-commercial use on any Apple-branded products running Mac OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control. " Generally, most of this list make me as published of a *GPL-derived product _breaking_ the license. > There's another very popular GPL app in the AppStore > http://mplayerx.org/ > And I am sure that there is more GPL software. Is this your 'legal ground' for you really this time? > 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?). The tarball will be then provided for non-commercial use... PS: What is surprising and interesting that the new MS App Store would be far more open, since they prepared specific exception for open source products. It is not anybody fault out there that Apple haven't done the same when it is clearly possible. -- 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
