This is a reply from the Apple app support :
This is Clarke with the iTunes Store Support Senior Advisor Team. It has
come to my attention that you have issues with an app on the iTunes Store.
I would be happy to help, but the iTunes Store Customer Support team does
not evaluate and review these applications, so I can't give you specific
information.
If you are the creator or original rights holder of the original
application (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/), you can contact Apple
Developer Support regarding this issue:
http://developer.apple.com/contact/
If you are not the creator or original rights holder of the original
application, I recommend contacting the creator of the original developer
(Skim) and they can take action on their own behalf.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention and I hope that I have
addressed your concerns. Please let me know if you have any further
questions regarding this particular matter.
Sincerely,
Clarke
iTunes Store Customer Support
Please note: I work: Mon-Fri 8:00am-5:00pm CST
Therefore, original developers should take action on this.
Best regards / Cordialmente,
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William-Fernando Oquendo,
Phd Candidate,
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On Jan 20, 2012, at 17:41, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2012, at 07:51 , Patrik Jonsson wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Fischlin Andreas
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I believe one needs to strongly protest. I believe this to be
> completely inacceptable and a violation of all open source ethics to ask
> money, and even quite a steep price, i.e. $29.99, for Skim. Has to be
> stopped as quickly as possible and the company Applest sued or at least
> make sure Apple kicks them off for good.
> >>
> >> $29.99? It shows up as free in my app store.
> >
> > It was $29.99 last night (US west coast time). I took a screenshot
> > of that page, including the note that says "Skim is a PDF reader and
> > note-taker for OS X…" in the store screenshot.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> I'm not defending this behavior, but if the copyright holders don't
> >> want Skim to be redistributed, the license should be changed. One
> >> can't simultaneously say it should be free software and then complain
> >> when people exercise that right, as long as they comply with the terms
> >> of the license.
> >
> > Correct, and none of the copyright holders has said that there's a
> > license violation. As I said last night, they should acknowledge the
> > real authors (mainly Christiaan by this time), but I don't know if they
> > have or not. Changing the name and selling it is legal under the BSD
> > license, as far as I understand it, but IANAL.
> >
> > --
> > Adam
>
>
> Indeed, the BSD license is pretty permissive. However, it has an
> acknowledgement clause for reuse, namely inclusion of the original
> copyright:
>
> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
> the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
> distribution.
>
> However, there's no acknowledgement whatsoever in their about box. So I
> think they're in violation, though IANAL either.
>
> But it is certainly not very nice behavior.
>
> the other thing of course is the App Store requirements. I am not sure
> what they are, but do they allow non-original apps? Though I do think Skim
> doesn't comply with certain App Store requirements (and this app as well.)
>
> Christiaan
>
>
>
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