Thats a pedantic difference. The GPL (version 2) was written in 1992(ish), well before the "App Store distribution model". The GPL was not written with the "app

Thats a pedantic difference. The GPL (version 2) was written in 1992(ish), well before the "App Store distribution model". The GPL was not written with the "app store distribution" model in mind. However it was written specifically to prevent certain closed source programmes.