Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Apple making your life difficult

[RsH <rob...@al...>]

See http://www.bu.edu/infosec/howtos/bypass-gatekeeper-safely/ for a way
to install the app without those permissions...

RsH


On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:56:22 -0500, you wrote:

>Its an annoying situation.  I spent a few days investigating on Mountain
>Lion before I released this last version and gave up in disgust.  The ML
>upgrade hosed me in many other ways, distracting from the hours I'd
>budgeted for slaying Gatekeeper.
>
>Apple Store is a non start for us.  Their license conflicts with ours.
>GPL, the license we use, encourages sharing and requires that you not
>restrict those rights when sharing with others.  Apples store adds DRM to
>even free apps to make them difficult to share.  So that's dead; no apps
>including GPSBabel or any other GPL APS should be in the apple store.
>
>There is allegedly a way to sign apps that show as trusted that will then
>install with the new gatekeeper default settings.  It looks like the price
>for not having Apple torment our mutual users is $99/year.  I do love
>several of ,y Apple products, but I can't decide if they hate their users
>or developers more.
>
>Anyone that has worked through the signing process, especially outside if
>xcode and doubly so without the trust fee, that can help work a solution
>into our build system, please drop me a line.
>On Oct 6, 2012 8:48 PM, "Greg" <we...@we...> wrote:
>
>>
>> With Mountain Lion Apple checks if an app is from an "identified
>> developer." If it's not identified the app won't launch without jumping
>> through some hoops. The technology is named Gatekeeper. Quote from Apple:
>>
>> Gatekeeper makes it safer to download apps by protecting you from
>> inadvertently installing malicious software on your Mac. The safest place
>> to download apps for your Mac is the Mac App Store. Apple reviews each app
>> before it’s accepted by the store, and if there’s ever a problem with an
>> app, Apple can quickly remove it from the store. When you download software
>> from any other place on the Internet, Gatekeeper makes that safer, too.
>> Developers can get a unique Developer ID<https://developer.apple.com/resources/developer-id/> from
>> Apple and use it to digitally sign their apps. The Developer ID allows
>> Gatekeeper to block apps created by malware developers and to verify that
>> apps haven’t been tampered with. If an app was developed by an unknown
>> developer — one with no Developer ID — Gatekeeper can keep your Mac safe by
>> blocking the app from being installed.
>>
>> Developer ID and Gatekeeper - Apple Developer<https://developer.apple.com/resources/developer-id/> link
>> from above paragraph.
>>
>> Thanks for the great app.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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