[Adium-devl] URGENT: Adium on iPhone--from WSJ
Zachary West
zacwest at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 18:04:00 UTC 2008
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Mark Janssen <praseodym at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Chris Forsythe <chris at growl.info> wrote:
>> No ipod or iphone. Adium is GPL, and one of the requirements is to
>> provide the source upon request. However, to develop for the iphone/
>> ipod touch requires complying with an NDA, which is counter to the
>> GPL. At least that's the understanding of the issue.
>
> There are other open source iPhone applications available (e.g.
> Wordpress, http://iphone.wordpress.org/), so I'm not sure if the whole
> Apple NDA vs. GPL discussion applies any more.
>
> IMO, the currently largest problem is the unavailability of the
> background notification API. When it's available, proper IM clients
> will be possible (but iirc, there was another thread about that).
Even still, the GPL doesn't allow you to restrict distribution with
the way the AppStore uses DRM.
Evan wrote:
"Releasing a GPL program which requires use of code which does not
permit its own distribution and modification without restrictions
beyond those of the GPL is a violation of the GPL itself. In
releasing an "Adium for iPhone" we would violate our own license,
which is not only a theoretical problem (as it goes against our
standard of freedom) but also a technical one (because if you don't
uphold your own licensing terms and defend them actively you set legal
precedent for others to do the same)."
Zac
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