On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:14 AM, N.L.M. de Jonge <nlmdejo...@telfort.nl> wrote:
> http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement > "That's the problem in a nutshell: Apple's Terms of Service impose > restrictive limits on use and distribution for any software distributed > through the App Store, and the GPL doesn't allow that." > > It is not relevant whether or not the main (or even all) developers > endorse the availability through the Apple Store, or that this > availability resulted in benefits for the Wesnoth community and/or its > developers. It's not so cut and dry as this, despite what the FSF would have you believe, whose agenda is against any closed platform on principle. The ToS applies to the specific binary you download from the AppStore, which is enabled to run on your device using DRM. Apple does not pose any restrictions on the source code or Wesnoth iPhone as a whole, just the digitally signed file that you downloaded to use in their "walled garden". It is similar to the "tivoization" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization) problem with GPLv2, however the iPhone hardware is much more permissive in that you are perfectly able to modify the iWesnoth source, recompile, run the modified version on your hardware, and distribute to others. This all can be done legally by getting an iPhone developer account. Kyle _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
