[0xmohit]

This is hilarious:

  My preferred solution would be for a fellow developer to get it
  back on the App Store, as a free app.

Especially because:

  Open sourcing doesn’t look like a good solution at this time,
  as most of my users are not iOS developers and are not familiar
  with compiling an app for their devices.

I may be missing something but the author cannot open source the app, but expects a fellow developer to get it on the App Store as a free app. Can the fellow developer pick up the existing app (binary?) and upload it on the app store?

[mikeash]

It would be tough to take the existing app and reupload it, but this guy could certainly provide another developer with a built binary which they would then submit.

You'd have to be mad to actually do that, though. We see quite clearly how Apple can react when they think they've been wronged, and who knows what that binary actually contains.

Seems like the best approach would be to open source it and convince somebody (perhaps several somebodies) to build it from source and put it on the store for free. Obviously, the source release would need to be under a license that was compatible with an App Store release (i.e. no GPL).

[eridius]

The other developer could be given the source. He doesn't need to open source the app in order to give one other developer access to the source.

[dogma1138]

That is likely to get the "fellow developer" banned/suspended with the current App store policy.