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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by mehhh on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:20PM (#21219298)
If you have citations of GPLv2 or GPLv3 apps that are in the App Store, I would be highly interested.

As far as I can discern, Linphone is provided in the App Store under a proprietary license, VLC had to relicense as LGPL, and GNU Go is still not on the App Store.

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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by dwaite on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:36PM (#21219880)
VLC-iOS is licensed GPLv2. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-ios/#license
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by mehhh on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:26AM (#21222280)
The App store version is almost certainly using MPLv2, which is a file based copyleft license. Much weaker than GPLv2.
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by dwaite on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:35PM (#21219872)
My understanding is that Apple doesn't ban GPLvX code - that doesn't mean other people won't write Apple and ask the app to be removed, claiming the app developer did not have proper copyright license.
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by saagarjha on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:03PM (#21219647)
I don’t think anyone’s tried it, because it was certainly not allowed a couple of years ago. But the language that the FSF used to point to is no longer there, so I’d like to hope that it might be possible today.
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