Re: [xmlvm-users] GPL and iPhone AppStore

[Andrea P. <and...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I following this mailing list since september and I didn't submit any
contribution yet, but I always asked to myself: How this guys think to
detect if an app has been cross-compiled with xmlvm and published on
appstore without owning a proper linking exception license? I don't
know deeply xmlvm but I hope that there are methods of detecting xmlvm
cross-compiled apps or are you relying only on good faith of
developers? Objectively, I can cross-compile my android app with xmlvm
and then publish it saying that I wrote it directly in Objective C
without using xmlvm (like C64 case mentioned by Panayotis)

Regards

a.p.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Panayotis Katsaloulis
<pan...@pa...> wrote:
>
> 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)
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