[devilkin]

Apple has a contract with their developers that probably prohibits just rolling back to an old version. As long as the app works, does not violate the AppStore terms and is intended as per the developer, who is Apple to say what they do with it?

I'm not saying that this is should not be handled, but .. I don't see many good outcomes here.

[rocketvole]

I think It has violated app store procedure? The app was under and open source license before, and now it is not, and users were not notified. I think complaining to apple would be a good move?

[dimask]

Only that the app was never really under open source license, at least not since 2019. It used to be under CC BY-NC 4.0 but then it changed to a "source available" type of status [0], where any modification, redistribution etc was prohibited. The previous author explained "Unfortunately I had to apply these restrictions in the license, as people started to redistribute my app to the appstore" [1]. I do not judge the fact of stopping open sourcing it, but he did not stop advertising it as "open source". Even now, that the source code is not even available any more, its website calls it "open source" [2].

[0] https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/commit/03791edd...

[1] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/13801

[2] https://raivo-otp.com/