[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?

[Jason H]

I think you guessed it.

Apple's store isn't about software rights, it is about profit. 

You can also only make apps for Android and give Apple's store the middle finger.




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 From: Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>
To: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [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 didn't receive an email, so it is not clear how to reply, other than copy and pasting from the list)
Thiago Macieira wrote:

>> Or is there anything that protects Qt users (who want to distribute their 
>> software through the Apple App Store) from such infringement complain? 

>Don't infringe.

How, other than using the commercial Qt license, or avoiding the Apple App Store and use the Cydia store?

Are you saying there is a way to release software using Qt under the LGPL license in the App Store, without infringing?
Thanks!
Erwin



On 21 February 2012 11:46, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com> wrote:


>Right, a commercial Qt license or using Cydia instead sound reasonable.
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>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
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>On 21 February 2012 11:32, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Get a commercial license?
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>>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. 
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>> 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?
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>>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
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>>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
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>>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)
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>>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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