As VLC for iPhone, iPad Pulled from App Store, What's the Future for GPL Apps?

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There's a companion piece to the TUAW story linked in the article: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you...

As I do not have any i-equpiment from Apple, I wonder what GPLed apps are currently in the Cydia app store?

Android apps violate the GPL as well because they're also wrapped in DRM.

That's patently untrue: APKs can be distributed manually.

Besides that, Google went out of their way to not modify apps on the Market at all. That even includes not zip-aligning them automatically, and that includes not doing ANYTHING to "protect" free apps and it's why there's no encryption model for apps being downloaded through the Market.

GPL is not incompatible with DRM. The problem with GPL and Apple's store is the store's license terms.

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