FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Free Software Foundation has discovered that an application currently distributed in Apple's App Store is a port of GNU Go. This makes it a GPL violation, because Apple controls distribution of all such programs through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is incompatible with section 6 of the GPLv2. It's an unusual enforcement action, though, because they don't want Apple to just make the app disappear, they want Apple to grant its users the full freedoms offered by the GPL. Accordingly, they haven't sued or sent any legal threats and are instead in talks with Apple about how they can offer their users the GPLed software legally, which is difficult because it's not possible to grant users all the freedoms they're entitled to and still comply with Apple's restrictive licensing terms."

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Re:Fat Chance

[Requiem18th]

Insightful? This is -1 Troll, you are insulting all of Slashdot, History and Reality.

* Slashdot: because you are calling them a bunch of unobjective Apple haters.
* History: because Slashdot has a history of praising Apple whenever it gets something right, in fact most people on Slashdot liked the iPhone until the Tarkin Grip became so obvious.
* Reality: because at this point, suggesting that Slashdot is a single unified hive mind should automatically mod you down.

Re:Fat Chance

[travisco_nabisco]

I will admit that the last time I tried Open Office was 4 years ago. Since then it may have improved on what I found lacking. However since then I have purchased my own copy of Office 2007 and now have no motivation to move back, now that I have a paid for license.