Google and OpenSource apps
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Nov 23 19:33:05 EST 2020
J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 11/23/20 11:59 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>> The issue with deploying apps governed specifically by the Gnu Public License (GPL, which is
>> used for LC Community distribution) has to do with Apple's limitation on the number of
>> downloads per account.
>>
>> That restriction is viewed as rendering Apple's ToS logically incompatible with the freedoms
>> guaranteed in the GPL, which expressly require no limitations on usage.
>
>
> The restriction is only for the number of beta testers though. Is that enough to qualify for
> the restriction?
The issue was with customer accounts, not dev accounts, which IIRC are
restricted to a 10-device limit.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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