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They are restrictive: It is impossible to release Apple Mac Appstore or iOS Appstore with them even if you release your source, as the binaries can't even have
by gte910h 15y ago
They are restrictive: It is impossible to release Apple Mac Appstore or iOS Appstore with them even if you release your source, as the binaries can't even have DRM on them even if you're giving away the source.
The license needs changing. It isn't protecting anyone with the requirement that the binary that someone gets isn't DRMed. There are many software channels (Apple, Xbox, Sony/PS3, Nintendo, just to name a couple big names) that don't have a DRM free way to run them.
- HerraBRE 15y agoYou've got it backwards. Apple, and anyone else who forces DRM on their users, needs changing. IMHO. :-)
- schrototo 15y agoIsn't that precisely the point of the GPL? To create as much software as possible that cannot be run in DRM environments so that eventually it's the DRM environments that have to die? It's pretty much a pipe dream of course...
- guelo 15y agoThis is why we need more indispensable GPL software, to make these jailed sandboxes less palatable.
- nknight 15y agoYour gripe seems to be with the restrictive Apple ecosystem, not the GPL.
- gte910h 15y agoSure, I'd happily truthfully label both the GPL and the Apple iOS platform as restrictive. Many parents love that part of it.