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

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 11 14:03:22 EST 2011

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/

Also, you have to pay Apple $99 a year.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu


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