[Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

[Erwin Coumans]

Right, a commercial Qt license or using Cydia instead sound reasonable.

The answer(s) in the original thread (
http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-September/035667.html)
didn't seem to address the issues between (L)GPL license and Apple App
Store properly.
Thanks!
Erwin



On 21 February 2012 11:32, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Get a commercial license?
>
> Or have a developer friend side-load it for you. Thanks to Apple's DRM
> we'll see install clubs and piracy take off again. Or use Cydia.
> <http://cydia.saurik.com/>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>
> *To:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:05 PM
> *Subject:* [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt
> developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed
> through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?
>
> I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an
> application distributed through the Apple App Store.
> This was previously discussed here, but it ignore the a part of the LGPL
> license about not imposing further restrictions:
> http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-September/035667.html
>
> Apple's Terms of Service impose restrictive limits on use and distribution
> for any software distributed through the App Store, and the GPL and LGPL
> doesn't allow that.
> From the LGPL license: "You may not impose any further restrictions on
> the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
> See
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
>
> It seems that if any Qt developer would send an infringement complaint to
> software distributed through he Apple App Store, Apple would pull the
> software, just like they did with the VLC player.
> (http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/vlc-enforcement)
>
> Do we just need to trust the Qt developers they won't do this?
> Or is there anything that protects Qt users (who want to distribute their
> software through the Apple App Store) from such infringement complain?
> Thanks,
> Erwin
>
>
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