Re: [xmlvm-users] GPL and iPhone AppStore

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On 17 Μαρ 2010, at 5:19 ΜΜ, Steven Gurr wrote:

> Is anyone on this list able to clear up whether or not GPL'd apps  
> are legally valid on the App Store? We've done some searching and  
> found a number of blogs (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/03/07/iphone-gpl 
> , http://stackoverflow.com/questions/762498/iphone-and-gpl, http://plasmasturm.org/log/512/ 
> , and http://www.geoffeg.org/wordpress/2009/10/07/the-iphone-and-the-gpl-v2-are-not-incompatible/) 
>  discussing it with varied conclusions, but nothing definitive or  
> from a lawyer.
>
> This obviously has great implications on the suitability of xmlvm  
> under its current licence for porting code to Objective-C for iPhone.
>

There are already a lot of GPL-ed applications in the App-Store,  
including Xokoban :)

Some of them, by the way, (like the C64 emulator) when requested to  
give back the source code, they don't do it.
Something which made me furious*



*except of course if they have a linking exception (which I believe  
they don't)