[saurik]

> They can't be, because all of these are lumped together in the category of "must be bundled with the app".

...that's the point: they are explicitly saying that both the interpreter and the code being interpreted must be shipped with the app, as that clause is directly saying you can only have an interpreter if there is no scripts or code being downloaded to later run on said interpreter.

> I mean, you could repackage this as "learn the Almquist shell".

...but they didn't. This same argument is the argument "in some theoretical alternative reality my BitTorrent client is mostly used to download files that can be legally redistributed, so the fact that even I am not using it in this way should not be counted against it"... but it isn't.

> > You just really really seem to want to believe that this is OK based on this clause...

> Because that lets it be on the App Store!

Whether this is to be allowed in the App Store has very little to do with what Saagar has chosen to believe, particularly if that choice has been made out of convenience.