[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Some people swore to me that just because the
free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple
App Store’s Terms of Service (ToS), didn’t mean that Apple would
actually pull down GPLed apps. Well, Apple just did. Rémi
Denis-Courmont, a Linux developer and the popular VLC media player,
has just announced that Apple had pulled the popular GPLed VLC
media player from its App Store.“Denis-Courmont wrote, “On January 7th, Apple removed VLC media
player from its application store for iDevices. Thus the
incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the
AppStore terms of use is resolved–the hard way. This end
should not have come to a surprise to anyone, given the
precedents.””