On 2013/03/24 5:15 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
We have tried putting AOO on Apple's App
Store but, last I checked, failed. I'd like to try doing it again.
Did we actually try? I'm adding Herbert to CC since he was discussing
this issue at ApacheCon, but I don't recall any "official" attempt to
get OpenOffice listed.
AFAIK there were no such efforts yet. We first have to get rid of some
dependencies that are prohibited by the app store's policies. This also
means we have to cut support of OSX versions older than 10.6 so we no
longer have to build against the old SDKs with depcreated APIs like ATSUI.
I don't think Apple has a policy against open source applications but
its App Store policies, if I recall, make it more difficult for
those.
Apple apparently dislikes the additional requirements copyleft licenses
impose on them when they redistribute such an app from their store. The
Apache license imposes no such extra burdens on app store providers so
we should be good.
I think that more than the license the problem was with digital
signatures, but Herbert might know more.
Yep, we'd need a developer certificate and for an official AOO build
this should be an official ASF certificate. AFAIK Jürgen is working on
that general topic with our friends from the ASF infra team.
Herbert
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