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> So Macs are out of question... Can't be signed can they?

... you know that even Apple ships some GPL software on every Mac right ? GPL is 100% fine mac hardware. There are even GPL apps on the appstore. Signing does not prevent you to upload a new version of the app to your own device.



> There are even GPL apps on the appstore.

Are you sure they're GPL?

Maybe they're dual-licensed, and the Apple app store is using "the other licence"?



Interesting. Event though some of the repos listed didn't seem to have licensing info in any obvious place, several of the GPL* ones did.

Seem you're right. :)

Am very surprised, after reports a while back of GPL (etc) apps not being approved.

Hopefully they continue to be approved (etc). :)


> Am very surprised, after reports a while back of GPL (etc) apps not being approved.

it was an issue until Xcode 7 : prior to that you had to pay 99$ to Apple for the right of uploading something to your own iDevice. Since Xcode 7 this is not necessary anymore.



> Apple ships some GPL software on every Mac right [..] re are even GPL apps on the appstore.

To my knowlage and IANAL, this is only possible with older pre-v3 licenses. v3 licenses specifically prohibit tevoisation, something that Apple's App store TOS effectively mandates by placing restrictions on what App users are allowed to do. I believe this is why apple doesn't ship recent versions of Bash.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_i...

there are no issues with modifying, recompiling a GPLv3 app and uploading & running it on your own iPhone, iPad or Mac - it's not tivoization.


I believe there are issues and serious ones at that. The lawyers at the FSF seem to agree:

* https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-sto...


Those articles are super old and don't apply anymore - the terms of the app store have changed almost 5 years ago (those articles are 10 years old)


Can you please provide a source?


While users are still allowed to run software of their choosing on the Mac I would think it would be perfectly acceptable to provide software that could be built and run outside of the mac app store.

If I'm mistaken please clarify.




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