pippin;323702 Wrote: > > hmmm, your links actually support the view that you can NOT have an > open source iPhone app. > However, in this case it's not the main point. The main points are: > a) You can of course openly publish your own code. However, most people > will use Apple code and libraries which are covered by an NDA alongside > the license agreement > b) Since you usually cannot build your own app but have to go through > the App Store the usual OpenSource distribution model breaks apart. And > then there is no way to guarantee that you will be able to distribute an > app through the app store. > > I I currently trying to figure out a way how you can manage that NDA > thing so that you can at least have a forum for people who have signed > that. Need to find time to REALLY CAREFULLY read those things, though.
Is the NDA the same thing as the license agreement you agree on when downloading the SDK ? Or is the NDA a separate thing only to those paying the $99 to be able to distribute the binaries through AppStore ? The Apple license it pretty clear that you can't re-distribute binaries of your application besides through AppStore, but it is a bit less clear regarding if you can re-distribute your part of the source code. Of course, the problem is the NDA part which don't allow you to publish stuff regarding the SDK and I guess you could interpret it as a violation if you publish source code, which indirectly would be an example of how to use the SDK, which isn't permitted by the NDA. I think the restrictions in the Apple license may be there for similar reasons as the restrictions in the Logitech SqueezeOS/SqueezePlay license. Although the license prohibits some things, Apple is probably not going to hunt you down unless you do something that really hurts Apples business. I personally have a hard time too see how developers collaborating to build iPhone applications which is distributed through AppStore would hurt Apples business. It will be interesting to see if the WordPress iPhone application developers is allowed keep publish their source code or if Apple will convince them to remove it. I really wish the iPhone would have been surrounded by the same open source philosophy as we have around the Squeezebox products, but I guess Apple is Apple so that would be a bit too good. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
