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>You are perfectly free to distribute the source code to an app you publish to the App Store. But the GPL states that when a user receives a binary, they may r
by davexunit 10y ago
>You are perfectly free to distribute the source code to an app you publish to the App Store.
But the GPL states that when a user receives a binary, they may request the complete corresponding source code to that software. That doesn't mean most of the code, minus this proprietary bit that handles DRM.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoBy that reasoning, you couldn't use any compiled GPL software on Windows, either, since the code will be linked with Microsoft's runtime libraries (which are decidedly not FOSS).
- justincormack 10y agoThe GPL has a system libraries exception that covers this.
- LeoNatan25 10y agoWouldn't the DRM handling system be considered a system library, thus falling in the same exception?