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Apple don't display any license information when purchasing an app so I think all OSI approved licenses are off limits since they all have a clause that requires the license text to be included by the distributor of the work.


Apple lists all the BSD-licensed parts of iOS under Settings/General/About/Legal. Third-party apps usually hide this information deep down in the About screen. I have also seen apps that come with a Settings bundle just to show the licensing information there.

I think it really is only an issue with the (L)GPL.


So?

That's a limitation of the license, not of the app store. Why should the app store have to accommodate all sorts of licenses?

Nobody reads license info anyway - I, and probably everyone else except Richard Stallman himself just click on OK and hope for applicable laws to protect me in case the license should contain unacceptable terms.

iOS got this right, and the GPL got it wrong.




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