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I can make available the source for an iPhone app that could be compiled with XCode. How is this in violation of the GPL?

• nekitamo 12y ago
  Also I believe you could make the object files (before linking) available on your website, and you'd still be fine. If I'm wrong someone please correct me.
• comex 12y ago
  It's not a violation of the LGPL. The plain GPL is usually said to be unusable on the App Store because it has a clause that "no further restrictions" may be made on the use of the software; that may be fine with you, but when Apple redistributes your app through the App Store, they do it with a EULA that prohibits a wide range of things, so, as the argument goes, such redistribution violates the license. The LGPL does not have such a clause, so it's OK. (It does have a clause that prohibits further restrictions on reverse engineering, but the iTunes terms of use have an explicit exemption to the general reverse engineering ban based on "licensing terms governing use of any open-sourced components".)