[rewqfdsa]

Don't you wish you hadn't surrendered software distribution authority to a single faceless corporate party? When nobody tried to demand bullshit crypto paperwork?

Remember when you could distribute software yourself without getting threatened[1]? Remember when platform vendors didn't take a 30% cut of everything you earned just because they wrote an OS? Not even Microsoft was that evil.

I hope you enjoy the world you've built, hipsters.

[1] See the f.lux Apple distribution debacle

[hundchenkatze]

This is unrelated to Apple and it's AppStore. Even if you sold this on your own, you'd be subject to the same rules.

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption

[mikeash]

There is an important difference, though. Small companies and individuals often fly under the radar of wacky bureaucratic rules like this, whereas big companies are more visible and are stuck with them. By routing all the small-timers through a big company, they can no longer do that.

You might say, small companies should be following these rules regardless so this is just as well. And I'd probably agree. But it's still a pretty big difference.

[fulafel]

No, most people wouldn't.

[rail2rail]

Calm down. It is the US Govt requiring this form. Apple is only passing along the requirement.

[derwildemomo]

You are off topic.