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Re:Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open so... by gibwell on Sunday November 03, 2013 @06:09PM (#6665573)
What do you expect Apple to do?

These things are made open source under a permissive license. The whole point is that people can do what they want with the code.

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Re:Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open so... by obeid on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:42AM (#6667054)
I was actually talking about clones of closed-source applications.
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Re:Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open so... by simonh on Monday November 04, 2013 @05:21AM (#6667823)
Given that you were replying to a comment specifically about open source, that wasn't clear. Also if an app is closed source, you have to wonder how the cloner obtained the source in order to re-skin it? Is that sort of industrial espionage, or code decompilation of iOS apps common?

You also have to wonder how Apple would know? There are almost half a million apps on the App Store, detailed code analysis of the app binary and comparison with other compiled app binaries on the store is hard enough on an individual basis, and trivially defeated by code obscuration, let alone at app store scale.

What are you suggesting Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other store operators should be doing?

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Re:Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open so... by yuvipanda on Sunday November 03, 2013 @06:38PM (#6665663)
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)
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Re:Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open so... by ddebernardy on Sunday November 03, 2013 @07:02PM (#6665767)
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?
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Re:Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open so... by gibwell on Sunday November 03, 2013 @06:58PM (#6665750)
That is not an answer to my question.
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