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by justinclift 2279 days ago
> There are even GPL apps on the appstore.

Are you sure they're GPL?

Maybe they're dual-licensed, and the Apple app store is using "the other licence"?
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jcelerier 2279 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_i...
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justinclift 2279 days ago
Interesting. Event though some of the repos listed didn't seem to have licensing info in any obvious place, several of the GPL* ones did.

Seem you're right. :)

Am very surprised, after reports a while back of GPL (etc) apps not being approved.

Hopefully they continue to be approved (etc). :)

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jcelerier 2279 days ago
> Am very surprised, after reports a while back of GPL (etc) apps not being approved.

it was an issue until Xcode 7 : prior to that you had to pay 99$ to Apple for the right of uploading something to your own iDevice. Since Xcode 7 this is not necessary anymore.

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