After reading the developer agreement, I would like to point out the fact that Apple does not seem to be the distributor of the app store apps. They merely act as an agent for the developer, i.e. Kyle. Also, it appears that Kyle is in violation of both the GPL and the Iphone Developer Agreement as gabba noted. I completely support his violation of the Developer Agreement as I think its terms are absolutely ridiculous.
I tend to agree with gabba that we should not support Apple's draconian system by allowing Wesnoth to be distributed in the app store. However, I also recognize the fact that a lot of Wesnoth contributors support such distribution. The licenses that I suggested before (CDDL and MPL) would allow for violation-free distribution in the app store. That is, such distribution could be done that didn't violate the license and also didn't violate the Iphone Developer Agreement. This is because, for the most part, the dev agreement restricts the licensing of the binary and not the source code, and the licenses do the opposite. Unlike BSD-like licenses the source code would be required to stay open and freely licensed. -Chris Hopman Also, all wesnoth dependencies are distributed under a license compatible with either CDDL or MPL.
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