On Wednesday 14 September 2011, Graham Goode wrote: > I think my iPhone is going to be > jail broken very soon ;)
I don't have any iSomething yet, but I agree that if I get one some day, this will be my first priority, as it "simply enables you to do more with your device, nothing is taken away" [1]. It has been made so easy that you only need to open a browser, navigate into jailbreakme.com and you are done. The same for reversing: you restore a backup from iTunes and you are on jail again. I'm not affiliated to this site, but if you want more information, it is well explained: [1] http://www.jailbreakme.com//#moreinfo Returning slightly to topic: the existence of Cydia and other alternative channels is what makes the entire App Store issue irrelevant for me with regarding to free software licenses. Let's imagine an hypothetical story. I get an iPhone, and somehow I purchase the Wesnoth game from the App Store paying $3.99, enjoying the experience (of playing, not paying). Some time after, I discover some rough edges in the game that I would like to soften, and have read that Wesnoth is released under the GPL, so I get the latest sources from their official repository, and start hacking it. I don't like the terms of the Apple Developer's Program, so I don't pay $99 and simply download Xcode into my Mac. My iPhone is already jailbroken, so I can test my compiled version on my device or any other friend (all of them have jailbroken iThings). Finally, I can distribute my derived version as "Wesnoth Unjailed" in Cydia, under the GPL with a write offer to provide the sources. I may attach to it the same price tag or not, this is irrelevant. All perfectly normal, legal and usual when working with GPL programs. No violation nowhere. Being a customer of the Apple Store doesn't give you the right of being a member of the Apple developer's club. But this is true as well with Sourceforge: downloading a program from SF doesn't give you the right to distribute a derived work there. You need to sign up with them. If you don't want, you can still download from Sourceforge and distribute on Launchpad, or Savannah. The channel doesn't matter, only to comply the license terms. Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
