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A comment on Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by dessant on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:13AM (#21557781)
Kivy bundles Python in iOS apps, and the apps are accepted on the App Store. Do you have a link for this policy?
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by saagarjha on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:15AM (#21557789)
That likely falls under the “educational” exemption: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by dessant on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:18AM (#21557801)
That's unlikely, Kivy is also used for commercial apps. Bundling interpreters is allowed, but you must not use them to execute arbitrary code, unless you do it for educational purposes. Kivy doesn't load remote code, so it's not affected by this policy.
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by saagarjha on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:22AM (#21557811)
Then apps using it must ship all of their Python code in the app bundle to meet the App Store Review Guidelines.
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