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		yuvipanda on Nov 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now ... A permissive license is the only one iOS apps can be released under. GPL and the App Store don't go well together (see https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance)

ddebernardy on Nov 4, 2013 | [–]

Not sure what your point is here. Seems to me that even if the FSF was happy with the app store, trivial forks and clones of OSS would reach the app store all the same, no?

gibwell on Nov 3, 2013 | [–]

That is not an answer to my question.

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