Availability of the source code is not sufficient to be in compliance with the GPL2.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC3 "6. [...] You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. [...]" http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SERVICE "b. Use of Products. You acknowledge that Products (other than the iTunes Plus Products) contain security technology that limits your usage of Products to the following applicable Usage Rules, and, whether or not Products are limited by security technology, you agree to use Products in compliance with the applicable Usage Rules. Usage Rules (i) Your use of the Products is conditioned upon your prior acceptance of the terms of this Agreement. (ii) You shall be authorized to use the Products only for personal, noncommercial use. [...] (iv) You shall be able to store Products from up to five different Accounts on certain devices, such as an iPad, iPod or iPhone, and Apple TV at a time; [...]" The iTunes Store adds restrictions to the users' rights. Note, for example, that the limitation to five devices is managed on Apple's side. http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement "That's the problem in a nutshell: Apple's Terms of Service impose restrictive limits on use and distribution for any software distributed through the App Store, and the GPL doesn't allow that." It is not relevant whether or not the main (or even all) developers endorse the availability through the Apple Store, or that this availability resulted in benefits for the Wesnoth community and/or its developers. Best regards, Norbert ---------- On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 12:00 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > [Kyle Poole:] > Yes, legally Apple can not impose further restrictions on your use of > Wesnoth that you downloaded, and we don't want them to. The intended > EULA information (GPL) is displayed in the game and should take > precedence over any default Apple EULA (that is not specifically > agreed to when you download this particular app). So instead of making > a scene and complaining about their platform (which is not the legal > issue here) can't you just assume that the GPL license can not be > legally overridden by Apple's EULA, and thus is in fact not? _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
