On 10 Feb 2014, at 7:36 PM, SevenBits <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's funny is that Xcode - distributed through the Mac App Store - does > show a license screen at first launch. This would mean that Apple is > breaking its own rules, if in fact that clause means what you say. Old Latin aphorism, which has applied to Apple-platform development since 1984: “Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.” “What is permitted to the Father of Gods is not for the cattle.” Apple has _always_ adopted human-interface elements that are unsupported by the SDK, or forbidden by its HIGs. --- As for the EULA (and we have experience only with the iOS App Store), look up the iTunes Terms and Conditions. <http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/ww/>. It includes a EULA with more-or-less standard disclaimers along the lines of “if the app kills your children, we’ll refund the cost of purchase.” You’ll also notice that there are some 150 T&C statements. U.S. common law, Vietnamese Communism, and Saudi Shari’a are apt to have different requirements for the written language of contracts and the substance of disclaimers of liability. When I pointed this out to our intellectual-property office, which wanted a custom EULA, they required the app’s distribution be limited to the United States. (They later relented, which was a relief when we got to a reader for the French Encyclopédie and various readers and dictionaries for Classical Greek. There are rather a lot of francophone jurisdictions.) Turn the U.S. Terms and Conditions over to your management, and see if they can live with it, especially compared to giving up international distribution (which prudence dictates you’d have to). — F _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
