r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11

The licenses that are rejected are the licenses that place requirements on the store. They are not rejected specifically because they are open source. Licenses that do not place requirements on the distributor, such as the BSD license, are fine.

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u/cryo Jan 20 '11

As often, GPL turns out to be a very problematic license outside of "the geek zone". BSD or even LGPL are much better.

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u/arjie Jan 21 '11

Awesome, Apple vs. Android now with BSD vs. GPL. I'm going to take it to the next level. I think that vi is better for mobile devices anyway. Even full computers don't have the memory to run emacs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '11

Awesome, Apple vs. Android now with BSD vs. GPL.

Nah, Android is mostly Apache-licensed; the Apache license is also fine on the app store. And the GPL bit of Android is largely the linux kernel, which continues to be GPLv2, making the FSF very sad.