Evan, Thanks for taking the time to check this out. I suspected that they would come to this conclusion.
It's sadly ironic that the GPL is getting in the way of distributing software for free. I sincerely hope that some sort of accommodation can be made so that more GPL Open Source software can be freely distributed through these channels (iTunes/App Store). Unfortunately, I don't see Apple changing their process... Since a given software title in their store can switch from free to paid on a daily basis, they need to track free software the same way that they track paid software..... My proposed solution ================== We put a free "Adium" app into the Mac App Store which is licensed using the BSD (or similar license) which merely does the following - Downloads a copy of the "real" adium from CacheFly - Makes it so subsequent launches of the AppStore provided Application launch the downloaded Adium binaries This gives us the visibility of being available on the App store - and builds our customer base - yet preserves the spirit of the GPL distribution rules. The filesystem restrictions on iOS wouldn't allow this for an iPhone version, but such a thing is definitely possible on MacOS. - Alan
