[pikachu_is_cool]

How are you guys going to get Cryptocat on the iPhone app store? Apple rejects GPL-licensed apps.

[josephlord]

If they own the copyright they can also release it under the 'whatever terms are appropriate for the app store licence'.

[pikachu_is_cool]

I thought the GPL automatically gives all rights to the code to the FSF.

[belorn]

Is that a joke, or do/did you honestly think so?

GPL is a copyright license, which people who receive it can use as permission when redistributing the copyrighted work.

The GPL do not give FSF anything. Same is true for example that Massachusetts Institute of Technology do not get all the rights when some code is licensed under MIT license.

[aaronharnly]

Is that the case? I thought it was more that the GPL rejects distribution on the App Store.

[pikachu_is_cool]

Are you seriously saying that it is the FSF's fault? It's Apple's fault. They didn't have to make the iPhone a closed platform.