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iPhone SDK and Free Software Don't Match
kookjr writes "Are you planning to develop software for the iPhone? If you want to develop Free Software, Linux.com (Shares corp overlord w/ Slashdot) has a good review of the conflicts between Apple's Registered iPhone Developer Agreement and licenses like the GPL. This is important for people who may not read all the agreements they click Agree to."
That the GPL and simular licenense are the only way for you to make free software.
It is just to bad there arn't other licenses out there were we can make free software.
Oh Wait their are, So if I want to make Free Software for the iPhone I just don't make it GPL...
I Sware you guys are so fixated on the GPL and not about Free Software, RMS could alter the GPL in ways that prevent you making programing to do particular functions that he thinks is bad, and you will smile think about it and justify it as for the greater good.
The GPL isn't the only way to do free software some licenses are more Open then the GPL is or others are just as Open but different. Or on the most extream use you could make your own!
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Well, I usually use my debit card Visa for small purchases. If $99 isn't a small purchase for you.... ouch. I'm sorry.
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You keep getting asked if you'll port SomeShitty App to the iPhone.
Now you know the answer: NO! Because you purposefully chose an extremely restrictive license that puts ideology ahead of pragmatism.
Beyond that you have demonstrated a further lack of touch with reality and pragmatism by falsely claiming that Apple forces you to charge for applications when it does not.
All in all you've neatly exemplified the Open Source Spirit. That is, an idiotic twit who operates without all the facts, and likes to license their software in a manner that has more to do with controlling how other people look at IP than how you do.
BSD is real freedom. BSD has none of these problems because it doesn't legislate the behavior of others. The GPL is a nanny state license.
Who pays you to keep your PC humming and your lights on and your mouth full of pizza and beer and your health insurance premiums and your continuing eduation and your programming books from Amazon?
Don't believe Steve Ballmer; FOSS isn't communism. Sometimes you have to have a day job if you don't have a business plan supporting the software you develop.
Anyone who harps about a $99 certificate is either grossly ignorant of every other more expensive signing program or is simply a disingenuous asshat.
iPhone 2.0 SDK: How Signing Certificates Work