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Obligations of noncommercial distributors

Obligations of noncommercial distributors

Posted Jun 13, 2010 14:30 UTC (Sun) by Lefty (guest, #51528)
In reply to: Obligations of noncommercial distributors by dark
Parent article: FSF takes on Apple's App Store over GPL

"dark" is correct: there's nothing in the GPL to suggest that one gets a pass because binaries are "unaltered". Apple didn't alter the binaries it received from Robota Softwarehouse, either.


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Obligations of noncommercial distributors

Posted Jun 13, 2010 21:04 UTC (Sun) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> Apple didn't alter the binaries it received from Robota Softwarehouse,
> either.

Doesn't it encrypt and sign them? So that they are Apple-DRM compliant?

jake

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