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In the comments, I see criticism of Apple, defense of Apple, criticism of FSF (which was downvoted below zero), open source discussions etc. Strangely, I don't
by credo 16y ago
In the comments, I see criticism of Apple, defense of Apple, criticism of FSF (which was downvoted below zero), open source discussions etc.
Strangely, I don't see any criticism of the app developer. The app developer signed an agreement with Apple and agreed to its terms. They then went on to pick up source code with the GPL2 license.
It seems reasonable to assume that the developer signed two licenses with the full knowledge that they would have to violate one of these licenses.
- zppx 16y agoMaybe he was just ignorant about the situation, recently here on HN, a community is well above the average of the Tech related communities in web, I have seen ignorance about copyright ownership and related subjects, so I prefer to believe that the developer was just ignorant, the Appstore model does nothing to educate this type of independent developer without any legal expertise and this type of situation can arise in the future as well.