[racket-dev] JFYI: Apple's Mac App store now online

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 11 15:05:47 EST 2011

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:59 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, John Clements
>> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>>> Anyhow, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years users start asking why DrRacket isn't available through the App store.
>>
>> I expect that, like the iOS App Store, distribution through the App
>> store is incompatible with DrRacket's LGPL license.  See, for example:
>>  http://www.enternet.org/3543575/vlc-app-removed-from-app-store/
>
> Looks like that one was GPL, not LGPL...

The relevant issues are the same, however.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu


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