No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store
Linked by Hadrien Grasland on Sat 8th Jan 2011 19:28 UTC, submitted by sjvn
GNU, GPL, Open Source Some people swore to me that just because the free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple App Store's Terms of Service (ToS), didn't mean that Apple would actually pull down GPLed apps. Well, Apple just did. Remi Denis-Courmont, a Linux developer of the popular VLC media player, has just announced that Apple had pulled the popular GPLed VLC media player from its App Store.
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RE[7]: ...
by No it isnt on Mon 10th Jan 2011 09:36 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: ..."
No it isnt
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2005-11-14

The Android Market doesn't have Apple's mandatory DRM.

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by Hiev on Mon 10th Jan 2011 14:08 in reply to "RE[7]: ..."
Hiev Member since:
2005-09-27

The problem wasn't the DRM, but the distribution of the source code, so both are in the same situation here. So, why no one has writen to Google?

Edited 2011-01-10 14:08 UTC

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