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It's getting ridiculous - I'd heard of this happening a lot, and then last week one of my GPL'd Mac apps that's hosted on GitHub appeared on the Mac Store, bein
by berkut 14y ago
It's getting ridiculous - I'd heard of this happening a lot, and then last week one of my GPL'd Mac apps that's hosted on GitHub appeared on the Mac Store, being sold for €23.99 by some person (obviously Chinese with a really dodgy website). Surely the dodgy website should ring some alarm bells at Apple?
Despite going through the process on the store feedback to notify Apple of counterfeit apps, I've had no response...
I don't really care that much that someone's profiting off my work (they didn't even bother to do their own screenshots), I'm more concerned that some people are going to pay that money for that clone of my app, when it's free (although not in the App Store), and the other developer is very unlikely to help them if there are any problems.
- ceejayoz 14y agoIf they provide the source code on request or in the credits or something similar, isn't that perfectly legitimate?
- fpgeek 14y agoMy understanding was that the GPL and Apple's app store terms were fundamentally incompatible, but I suppose that might only be true of iOS (because of the development tool issues and such).
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoGPLv3 which requires handing over the keys, yes. GPL(v2), no.
- berkut 14y agoNot according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store and people familiar with the issue...