Re: [xmlvm-users] GPL and iPhone AppStore

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

at this point it is easy to detect.   :-)   With enough effort we can 
probably detect even if someone tries to conceal the fact they are using 
XMLVM. But in principle we rely on the honesty of developers/companies. 
The whole discussion on this mailing list is an indication of this 
honesty. Of course there are cases where the GPL has been violated. 
There are actually some famous cases. There is a web site dedicated to 
this: http://gpl-violations.org/ As far as I know, those cases that have 
become known, the perpetrator was put under so much pressure (bad press) 
that they eventually complied to the GPL.

Arno


On 3/17/10 9:23 AM, Andrea Paiano wrote:
> 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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