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It's very unfortunate that some devs spent much of their time porting vlc on iOS so it could be yanked by another dev kicking up a fuss over a technicality, in my opinion...

I hate apple's fascism as much as the next guy, but I don't see how the app store practically violates the GPL. Is it because it has no "download source" button? You can get it easily enough at the dev's site...

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There may be other complexities to it, but I never thought the GPL v2 explicitly forbad DRM signed apps. Also it was my understanding that providing the source could be a URL, which is the easiest for everyone involved, but you could also provide it upon request by mailing a CDR and still be compliant. The GPL does not require that the source be included with the distribution of the program, just that the source is available to anyone who gets the compiled program.

I think so too, but I'm not sure.

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