<story><title>VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store</title><url>http://planet.videolan.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbk</author><text>Disclaimer: VideoLAN Chairman and lead VLC developer here.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve written the most important analysis on the matter &lt;a href=&quot;http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-November/077457.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Novembe...&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-December/078262.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Decembe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some VLC developers (for Mac mainly), with the company Applidium, have ported VLC on iOS. Applidium published it on the store, for free.&lt;p&gt;Some developer complained (quite lately, btw...) afterwards and quoted a FSF analysis. Their analysis was totally wrong (spoke about redistribution), and based on old version of AppStore terms.&lt;p&gt;After my remarks about changes of the AppStore terms that made this analysis obsolete and wrong, they shifted their criticism onto another part, which was the &quot;usage&quot; part of the ToS. They complained that the terms did not allow all uses, especially commercial ones.&lt;p&gt;Indeed, one part could be interpreted in different ways. Therefore, I&apos;ve mailed Apple Copyright Agent for explanation, twice. Once in November, once in December...&lt;p&gt;Apple has refused to answer, to explain or to help in any matter. They then decided to pull the Application unilaterally from the AppStore.&lt;p&gt;Of course, they are allowed to do that, and noone can complain, but this is yet another push from Apple against VLC, that adds to the very long list of past issues. It just makes me think Apple doesn&apos;t really want competition...</text></comment>
<story><title>VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store</title><url>http://planet.videolan.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>It seems that this is the best analysis for now.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-November/077457.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Novembe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple changed App Store terms. Previously:&lt;p&gt;The Usage Rules shall govern your rights with respect to the Products, in addition to any other terms or rules that may have been established between you and another party&lt;p&gt;Now:&lt;p&gt;...unless the App Store Product is covered by a valid end user license agreement entered into between you and the licensor of the App Store Product (the &quot;Licensor&quot;), in which case the Licensor&apos;s end user license agreement will apply&lt;p&gt;So either GPLv2 is a valid end user license agreement, or if it isn&apos;t, one just needs some out-of-bound mechanism that users and developers agree on GPLv2.</text></comment>