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Actually, the iPhone and GPLv3 were first released on the same date, June 29th 2007.
by richardfontana 9y ago
Actually, the iPhone and GPLv3 were first released on the same date, June 29th 2007.
- jakelazaroff 9y agoEven so, GP's assertion stands up: being released on the same day, GPLv3 certainly wasn't written with the knowledge of how personal our phones would become.
- AgentME 9y agoThe GPL is written with the idea that being able to write and modify software on your own devices is good; our devices becoming more personal only makes GPLv3's additions more critical. (As others have said, there's ways to make GPLv3 work with the iphone's security model, mainly along the lines of requiring a factory reset whenever you want to add an allowed signing key to the device.)