On Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:00:45 PM Greg Hellings wrote: > As I understood it the FSF had (at least in the past) declared that > there was an incompatibility. But IIRC, the incompatibility was > actually that Apple is always violating the GPL with its distribution. > Since the GPL states that the person doing the distribution is > required to make the code and any modifications to the program > publicly available to the people to whom they distribute the app. > Thus, to be in compliance Apple would need to have a place where > people could download the source code plus their technology for > digitally signing the compiled apps, etc, in order to be in touch with > the GPL. (That's how I understood it. That could be totally bogus.)
INAL (nor do I play one on tv, and I haven't even slept at a holiday in express) but there is a Linux distribution called Mepis that is a derivative of Debian that got in hot water with the FSF for not distributing the source code themselves but rather upstream debian distribution. The FSF said that was not a valid way to distribute the source in compliance with the GPL, and thus Mepis had to distribute source packages drectly even if they did not modify the code. I would imagine app stores fall under the same issue. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page