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Re:Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple' by rascul on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:16AM (#47675758)
If Apple is distributing modified vlc binaries without releasing the source of the changes when requested, is that a potential legal problem?
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Re:Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple' by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @07:40AM (#47688811)
As always, it depends; VLC "the iOS app" is not the same as VLC "the binary compiled from source". The article itself says they couldn't find any code changes, and the theories are that a certificate was updated.

I don't believe an iOS distribution specific certificate falls under the license you're referring to, but I'm no expert on these matters.

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Re:Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple' by feepk on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:17AM (#47701648)
As a developer of the VLC-iOS app, I can confirm that the binary itself is completely unchanged. It is indeed the signature that was updated.
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