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Comment by jhaynie | Hacker News Reader

We cannot pull an App from the App Store and would never do that if we could. We are drafting a response. Please give us a few minutes to get something up on the Q&A thread on our dev site.

http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/142516/warning-li...

Jeff (CEO of Appcelerator).

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please also explain how/why the final customer was contacted. knowing nothing about this, it seems like the licencing issue could be a misunderstanding with the developer. but contacting the people that developer was selling to seems very odd.

[edit: and... you avoided the issue completely. pity.]

Thanks for responding here Jeff. The license on https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile is Apache 2.0. How can you possibly ask for money from a developer who used Apache 2.0 code? It seems like a black and white issue and that you are in the wrong. Please address the Apache 2.0 license in your response.

They don't. I've used Appcelerator for a number of projects that are now on the App store(s) and haven't ever worried about this. The source code is on Github under the Apache license as you mentioned. This is enough for me and my lawyers to not worry about it.

How does that possibly prevent their sales people from contacting your customers and demanding $5000 or their app gets pulled?

Everything is black and white when you've only heard one side of the story.

He is asking for the other side...

Yes, that was my intent. I was asking for the other side to make a clear response and specifically to mention the Apache license in their response. They made a vague, long winded, PR-speak response which did not address any of the issues. I continue to judge them for bad business practices and ethics. If they provide more evidence that paints a better picture I'll listen.

Has nothing to do with pulling the app from the app store - it's all about breaking the trust and contacting the customer directly. Bad move.

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