Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Ruby on the iPhone?

[Steven A. <st...@ar...>]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Timothy Perrett wrote:

> Yes, whilst your right about the legitimate aspect - remember in legal
> terms there is no notion of illegitimate being in anyway "ok". lol.
>
> Whilst it's true that people will always find ways to hack this device
> - apple will no doubt find ever more legal bean counters to stop
> people doing so.

I read the Apple iPhone SDK EULA at http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iphone.pdf 
  and I do not see anything in it that suggests that only Apple- 
provided tools may be used to create iPhone apps.  In fact, I don't  
even see anything that says you may only distribute an iPhone app via  
the iTunes App Store.  If I'm missing some language in the EULA,  
please correct me.

My take: there is nothing in the EULA to prevent a tool that creates  
an iPhone app via Ruby.  While such a tool could possibly be used for  
"illegitimate" purposes (e.g. an app for use on jailbroken devices),  
let's not forget that ALL so-called illegitimate apps that exist today  
were created using XCode and Objective-C.  Allowing iPhone apps to be  
created using Ruby would not add any capability for illegitimate  
activity that does not already exist today.

steven