[eric-hu]

> but nothing prevents there being e.g. a community of people running open-source apps that don't abide by the App Store restrictions, all compiling them on their own machines.

My memory could be wrong on this, but I thought this is exactly what the Flux app did and Apple sent them a cease and desist for keeping the self compile and self sign instructions online.

In a sense, you're still right as long as the community stays small enough that it doesn't get the attention of Apple.

[saagarjha]

f.lux is not open source, and Apple told it to stop because it tried to distribute itself as an opaque binary rather than something that users could compile themselves.

[eric-hu]

I don't think this is accurate. The original announcement HN thread includes discussion of the source, which is linked and still online on GitHub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550427

[ekiru]

The comment you linked discusses the source of a different project, doesn't it?

[eric-hu]

You're totally right. I remembered that incorrectly and then didn't double check when I saw the link. My mistake!