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> Apple ships some GPL software on every Mac right [..] re are even GPL apps on the appstore. To my knowlage and IANAL, this is only possible with older pre-v3
by guug 7y ago
> Apple ships some GPL software on every Mac right [..] re are even GPL apps on the appstore.
To my knowlage and IANAL, this is only possible with older pre-v3 licenses. v3 licenses specifically prohibit tevoisation, something that Apple's App store TOS effectively mandates by placing restrictions on what App users are allowed to do. I believe this is why apple doesn't ship recent versions of Bash.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
- jcelerier 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_iOS_applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_i... there are no issues with modifying, recompiling a GPLv3 app and uploading & running it on your own iPhone, iPad or Mac - it's not tivoization.
- guug 7y agoI believe there are issues and serious ones at that. The lawyers at the FSF seem to agree: * https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance * https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-sto...