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So if someone wanted to be an asshole, they could send takedown notices for Pixie Scheme III (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059242) as well as all other apps that are under GPL and Apple would no doubt follow the same approach and take them away?

Seems like a good way for closed source apps to remove their open source competition.

Not all open source uses GPL, thankfully.

"Someone" needs to be the legal owner of the GPL'ed code in question for the takedown notice to have any legal meaning.

But that could be a tiny portion of the code overall.

One developer with a grudge can cause a problem, even if that developer has a tenuous connection to the project.

If it has some code there, yes.

FSF is wrong and totally biased. Not to mention outdated analysis...

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Decembe...

A contentious view: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853496; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1849687