Griffin Boyce griffin@cryptolab.net writes:
Here are the issues as I see them:
- Apple has traditionally been at odds with GPL-licensed stuff [3],
though of late it seems to have relaxed a bit with dual-licensed material [2].
- If the TBB is added to the app store by Tor, it requires review of
and agreement to Apple's terms and also agreeing not to reveal DRM sekrits [4].
- It requires time and energy to keep the app store listing maintained.
It's a little hard to tell what's really going on. A few thoughts:
It seems Apple's terms are incompatible with copyleft, and that isn't likely to change. Is there any copylefted code in TBB? I would expect so, but I haven't enumerated it. People who choose copyleft for their code do so for a reason, and Apple's terms are fundamentally inconsistent with those reasons - this isn't a matter of nits to be smoothed over.
Is the agreement that a company would have to sign public? There seems to be some notion that it is not. I believe that charitable organizations and free software organizations should not enter into secret agreements, and that doing so would be a breach of their duty to act in the public interest.