On Jan 20, 2012, at 14:02 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: > 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.
Then I also believe that's a violation, but I wasn't willing to drop $30 just to check it out last night! Since Mike's name is on the license and the rest of us are "contributors," I'd guess he's the one to take it up with Apple WWDR. > 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.) Since I never paid to develop for the App Store, I don't know the requirements. NSTask and any Apple SPI usage are off limits, though, from what I've read. Doesn't the remote control thing use SPI? -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
