2010/7/12 Kyle Poole <[email protected]> > I looked into providing the GPL as a custom EULA for the Wesnoth > download, however Apple states that any custom EULA must meet their > "minimum terms" which can't be more permissive than their default. >
Thanks for looking. Given my other findings it wouldn't even have been enough, I think. > My question though, is what about all the dependencies that Wesnoth > uses, such as SDL? Is any project that uses GPL components also > subject to the same problems? You can't have "GPL components", because the license requires the whole software to be GPL. You can have *L*GPL components, but my recent findings seem to indicate Apple infringes on the license of these components in multiple ways: the redistribution/modification rights probably don't extend to downloaders of your code; and for commercial apps they don't host the downloadable source code. And why is it that only the copyright > holders can object, why can't the end users of GPL software complain > that Apple is hindering their freedoms, and demand that the software > be removed? Rusty should investigate this, maybe he can get half the > appstore taken down. ;) > Except copyright law on which the GPL is based, I don't see what end-users could use as a legal lever to enforce their rights. Well, actually they can pester Apple with requests for source code of GPL apps/LGPL parts of apps, since the crunchy fruit company(tm) is legally obligated to give it to them. Which will probably cause Apple to take down the apps, they seem hard-headed. Gabba > > Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
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