If I'm not mistaken, VideoLAN never built a version of VLC for iOS devices, but another developer did. Apple has already changed their Licensing restrictions to

If I'm not mistaken, VideoLAN never built a version of VLC for iOS devices, but another developer did. Apple has already changed their Licensing restrictions to comply with software such as VLC, as you said. This sounds like a giant mess of FUD and clever trolling. The FSF is complaining about something that both Apple and VideoLAN had no part of, but that's who they can point fingers at. Why isn't anyone complaining about Applidium, who were the ones that coerced VLC into the app store, which effectively "changed the licensing terms" of a project who's licence says that it cannot be re-licensed? edit: the above paragraph is referring to the mess that the FSF article is claiming to be an issue, not the fact that VLC's licence can comply with the terms of the app store. In all reality, Apple wants every piece of quality[1] software on the planet to be distributed through their store, even if it is free and can be obtained elsewhere. The GPL/FSF guys seem to be more restrictive about where their software can and cannot be released than Apple is restrictive on what kind of software can be included in their store at this point. It is making everyone look bad. Can't we just get along? [1] Ambiguous term, I know.