[Bf-committers] Blender on the Mac App Store

[jonathan d p ferguson]

hi.

As far as I know, the GPL is *incompatible* with the terms of the Apple App Store. VLC was pulled because the GPL is incompatible with Apple's terms [1]. It is Apple who needs to liberalize their terms, not the FOSS developers. We must all respect the terms of the GPL, and encourage Apple to be more liberal with their terms.

Given that Apple's Lion Operating System will be deployed through the App Store only, and given that Lion includes a substantial amount of GPL software, perhaps these changes are already afoot. Perhaps not.

Thanks.

have a day.yad
jdpf


[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/vlc-for-ios-vanishes-2-months-after-eruption-of-gpl-dispute.ars

On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Shaul Kedem wrote:

> Hi,
> As I understood, the VLC incident was because of the original authors
> of VLC not wanting their software to be in the App store, apple just
> followed the original copyright holder's request.
> 
> As for the license, we need a lawyer for that :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Sergey I. Sharybin <g.ulairi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Personally, I don't think it's a good idea. App Store isn't compatible
>> with GPL license. Even more, it was accident with VLC already -- Apple
>> simply removed this application from App Store due to license
>> incompatibility.
>> 
>> Markus Kasten wrote:
>>> Hello everyone.
>>> 
>>> what about putting blender on the App Store (the one for Mac applications of course, not for iOS)?
>>> Blender could reach a lot more popularity.
>>> 
>>> Markus K.
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>> 
>> --
>> With best regards, Sergey I. Sharybin
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