I guess if you are not planning to market your iPhone app to the wider community via the App Store and just building an enterprise application that is used specifically within a business, then you may be able to getaway with developing with Monotouch.
I might just add that I am just speculating and have no real idea as to whether the gatekeepers at Apple will or wont stop this kind of development as well. Regards, Colin On 5 May 2010 14:05, Jolyon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure that the new licensing is an issue for monotouch as they > > support iPhoneOS 4 presently - I think the licensing is more aimed at > > Adobe (I'm not sure why Apple hates flash sooooo much). But I'm sure > > others on this list know more about this than I. > > > The language in the license quite clearly and obviously applies equally to > MonoTouch. > > Novell would have been working on 4.0 support long before the license terms > were changed. So of course they announced support for it, they weren't > about to throw all that work away. And MonotTouch can support OS 4.0 > without violating the license. People can even still use it to develop > apps > without violating the license. The license only affects whether those apps > will then be permitted access to the store. > > It's like the landlord in your pub... he will happily sell you beer. If on > the way home you then get pulled over and arrested for drunk driving, well, > that's between you and the law, nothing to do with the landlord. (don't > pull too closely at that analogy... landlords typically are limited by the > law in some respects, e.g. to not serve intoxicated persons, but someone > doesn't have to be intoxicated to be over the drink drive limit). > > > But whole debacle is a bit pointless. > > The license also already gave Apple the right to deny access to/withdraw > any > app from the store without reason. By introducing this language I think > they are covering their legal backsides against a potential law suit from > someone who feels their development language/tool/framework is being > specifically and unfairly targeted by Apple. > > This language gives them plausible cause: "The license clearly states... > etc etc, so we're sorry, but all those applications written in/for your > product willfully violated those terms. You knew that when you started > developing/selling/marketing your product to developers". > > > Presently they have Adobe Flash in the public gun-sights - the MonoTouch > guys aren't being targeted at present (but neither have Apple said that > MonoTouch escapes being covered by the license language). > > The bottom line is that anyone using MonoTouch to deploy code written in > Delphi Prism, C# or any language other than those specifically allowed in > the license for iPhone/iPad cannot now complain in the future if they have > their app pulled/denied access to the store on the basis of it being a > MonoTouch app. > > They couldn't complain before either of course, but a single developer > irked > at not being allowed to distribute his app isn't who the license is aimed > at... it's aimed at the legal departments of the > language/tool/framework/runtime vendors that those developers might choose > to use. > > > Just my 0.02 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:delphi- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Alister Christie > > Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 3:28 p.m. > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > > Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi on Windows Mobile > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe >
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