<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As far as i know, Apple never said that they pulled out the VLC App from the AppStore because the GPL license was incompatible, nobody knows why was pulled out . Just because some idiotic Nokia employee doesn't like Apple doesn't means that you can't publish GPL software in the AppStore<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store</a></div><div><br></div><div>says</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Software licensed only under the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">GPL</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> (because the App Store Terms of Service impose additional restrictions incompatible with the GPL)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store#cite_note-7" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; ">[</span>8<span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; ">]</span></a></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store#cite_note-8" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; ">[</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0645ad"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap;">9</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman !important; ">]</span></a></sup></span>"</div><div><br></div><div>but if you pay attention to those references [8] and [9]</div><div><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement">http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement</a></div><div><a href="http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-January/007973.html">http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-January/007973.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>You will notice that those are just personal opinions and obscure references without any legal ground. </div><div><br></div><div>There's another very popular GPL app in the AppStore</div><div><a href="http://mplayerx.org/">http://mplayerx.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>And I am sure that there is more GPL software.</div><div><br></div><div>Please notice that the Apple Store is just another distribution channel for the end user. You can always share a link to the the source code. You can even pack a tarbal with the source codel inside the Bundle (why not?).</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 December 2011 22:17, Alex Sarmiento <<a href="mailto:alexsarmiento@me.com">alexsarmiento@me.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Right now i am adding support for Mac os X Lion native fullscreen , file<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">choosers and unified title and menu bars to the whole KDE and Krita apps.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> It works and feel better that way under MacOS, with a more native and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">integrated experience. It only takes some minor tweaks to the source code<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So i thought that it would be nice if i can just could buy some of this<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">apps directly from the mac store, like Okular,Kate and Krita.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">That would be a nice founding channels for these projects.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Take for example CyberDuck (<a href="http://trac.cyberduck.ch/">http://trac.cyberduck.ch/</a>), which has a GPL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">License and is being sell at 24$ in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AppleStore. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cyberduck/id409222199?mt=12&ls=1">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cyberduck/id409222199?mt=12&ls=1</a>.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Im not really sure what it takes to put an App in the AppStore, but if those<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CyberDucks guys can, maybe Krita could earn some extra money that way too.<br></blockquote><br>Alex, I understand your motivation but for some license<br>incompatibilities with the AppStore, please see [1] first.<br><br>Then look that CyberDuck may be not the very similar example if it is<br>dual-licensed (easy in a small development team). My guess - correct<br>me.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you/">http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you/</a><br><br>-- <br>regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek<br> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek">http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek</a><br> Kexi & Calligra (<a href="http://kexi-project.org">kexi-project.org</a>, <a href="http://identi.ca/kexi">identi.ca/kexi</a>, <a href="http://calligra-suite.org">calligra-suite.org</a>)<br> KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (<a href="http://windows.kde.org">windows.kde.org</a>)<br>_______________________________________________<br>calligra-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:calligra-devel@kde.org">calligra-devel@kde.org</a><br>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>