I think you guessed it.
Apple's store isn't about software rights, it is about profit.
You can also only make apps for Android and give Apple's store the middle
finger.
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From: Erwin Coumans <erwin.coum...@gmail.com>
To: Jason H <scorp...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt
developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed
through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?
(I didn't receive an email, so it is not clear how to reply, other than copy
and pasting from the list)
Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Or is there anything that protects Qt users (who want to distribute their
>> software through the Apple App Store) from such infringement complain?
>Don't infringe.
How, other than using the commercial Qt license, or avoiding the Apple App
Store and use the Cydia store?
Are you saying there is a way to release software using Qt under the LGPL
license in the App Store, without infringing?
Thanks!
Erwin
On 21 February 2012 11:46, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Right, a commercial Qt license or using Cydia instead sound reasonable.
>
>
>The answer(s) in the original thread
>(http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-September/035667.html)
>didn't seem to address the issues between (L)GPL license and Apple App Store
>properly.
>Thanks!Erwin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On 21 February 2012 11:32, Jason H <scorp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Get a commercial license?
>>
>>
>>Or have a developer friend side-load it for you. Thanks to Apple's DRM we'll
>>see install clubs and piracy take off again. Or use Cydia.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>> From: Erwin Coumans <erwin.coum...@gmail.com>
>>To: interest@qt-project.org
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:05 PM
>>Subject: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt
>>developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed
>>through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?
>>
>>
>>
>>I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an
>>application distributed through the Apple App Store.
>>This was previously discussed here, but it ignore the a part of the LGPL
>>license about not imposing further restrictions:
>>http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-September/035667.html
>>
>>
>>Apple's Terms of Service impose restrictive limits on use and distribution
>>for any software distributed through the App Store, and the GPL and LGPL
>>doesn't allow that.
>>From the LGPL license: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the
>>recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
>>See http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
>>
>>
>>It seems that if any Qt developer would send an infringement complaint to
>>software distributed through he Apple App Store, Apple would pull the
>>software, just like they did with the VLC player.
>>(http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/vlc-enforcement)
>>
>>
>>Do we just need to trust the Qt developers they won't do this?
>>Or is there anything that protects Qt users (who want to distribute their
>>software through the Apple App Store) from such infringement complain?
>>Thanks,
>>Erwin
>>
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