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[Simon Hobson]

At 08:59 -0700 18/4/12, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:18, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>.....
>  > It's technically against the GPL to publish it on the App Store, but
>>  there are plenty of applications that way..
>
>I have not followed the App Store offerings, and I am sure
>there are the "hidden exceptions", but I remember a number
>of "reports" that GPL'd apps in the App Store were being
>removed as they were identified.  Is that not still true?

Yes, that has happened. If Apple spot that a program is under GPL 
then it will be pulled<period>.

And it's not "technically against the GPL", it is absolutely in 
breach of the GPL. The author of an App for an iDevice is not able to 
provide the source used to build the Apple as distributed. They can 
provide the source to what they submit, but what is actually 
distributed is different (Apple add the crippleware), and only Apple 
can provide the source for the steps they apply (and I suspect Satan 
will be trying out ice skating before they do that.)

Whatever we might think of that, it's how it is and isn't likely to 
change soon.

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