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IANAL, but does this violate the part of Apple’s iPhone Developer License Agreement that says “applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript”? The code is “written” in Objective-C, but it was “originally” not code at all.

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I don't think that's part of the developer license agreement any more. Considering how successful Unity, Corona and other non-obj-c development tools have been I'd be surprised if it was.

Don’t know. The last I heard of it was mid-2010, and there doesn’t seem to be new information saying it’s changed. Apple seems bent on killing Flash, and that wording was a perfect way to deal with CS5. Unity, on the other hand, has a good relationship with Apple, so there’s no reason for Apple to invoke Dread Section 3.3.1 against them.

That is not part of the license anymore.

Thanks for clearing that up. I just didn’t know and couldn’t readily find it.

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