[guardian-dev] Apple App Store and GPL

[Natanael]

At that point it sounds like switching license would be easier.

2013/8/29 Lee Azzarello <lee at guardianproject.info>:
> If any good citizen or fanboy grinds their axe, the same thing will
> happen to Silent Circle and Belledonne (sponsor of Linphone). People
> have published GPL software in the app store. Some of that software
> even has source code available for the public to read. Millions of
> people use GPL software distributed from the app store on their
> idevices. Other than the VLC issue that got public attention, there
> doesn't seem to be much enforcement coming from this big bad wolf
> character at Apple software licensing. I haven't gone through the
> submission process for anything so I don't know. Does Apple request
> source code when you release an app? If not, they have very little
> tools available to discover the license of the libraries. How much
> work really goes into this approval process?
>
> I think a honeypot app submission pipeline with published results
> would be interesting but maybe a lot of work. I hear you have to think
> of something novel to release.
>
> -lee
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And then *somebody else* tells Apple. Then what?
>>
>> 2013/8/28 Lee Azzarello <lee at guardianproject.info>:
>>> I think this is doable. It's sort of an innocent until proven guilty
>>> scheme. It seems reasonable to publish GPL software in the app store
>>> and just not mention it to Apple's authorities. It might be
>>> interesting to set up some honeypot apps to test how aggressive the
>>> software library review process is.
>>>
>>> -lee
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Billy Gray <wgray at zetetic.net> wrote:
>>>> thanks, that quite clearly spells it out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:11 AM, The Doctor <drwho at virtadpt.net> wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>> On 08/28/2013 10:46 AM, Billy Gray wrote:
>>>>> > Not to be a pain or anything, but when you say "they WILL pull it,"
>>>>> > are you referencing any instances or reports that you read or heard
>>>>> > about? This is a new one on me. I wouldn't be entirely surprised,
>>>>> > but still I haven't heard of people getting the boot for GPL'd
>>>>> > code.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/8046
>>>>>
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