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stoney on May 26, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: GPL Enforcement in Apple's App Store

I suppose that the right to copy, distribute or modify the Program is not the same as the ability to do so.

Apple could grant everyone the right to redistribute any GPL'ed apps, but it wouldn't make any practical difference because who could I distribute the app to?

endgame on May 26, 2010 | [–]

Isn't this the "Tivoisation" problem that GPLv3 was meant to address?

rbanffy on May 26, 2010 | | [–]

Precisely

decode on May 26, 2010 | [–]

who could I distribute the app to?

Anyone with a jailbroken phone, right?

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