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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by heavyset_go on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:05AM (#24314525)
The issue with the GPL is not the limitations Apple put in place on their platform, but the additional terms required for distribution in the App Store. This is the reason cited by Adium[1] and VLC[2] developers when their projects were removed for GPL violations.

You can read more about those terms here[2], but they have nothing to do with the iOS security model.

[1] http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-January/007973...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-an...

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by Xylakant on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:25AM (#24314605)
I don’t see how the “mike gives a copy to Steve who can then run it on his iOS device” can be made to work without side loading (steve can already download his own free copy from the App Store). The FSF seems to argue that this must be possible to be compliant, so yeah, that’s my point.
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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:39AM (#24315174)
It wouldn't really affect Apple at all if they allow the sideloading of free apps that are already in the store.
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