<story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&amp;#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.&lt;p&gt;Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>The Free Software Foundation has some details on this[1]. This used to come up with the video player VLC, but they seem to have relicenced it, and it&amp;#x27;s now possible.[2]&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard one reason is that the App Store requires users to agree to additional usage restrictions, which the GPL forbids distributors (in this case Apple) from applying.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fsf.org&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fsf.org&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;more-about-the-app-store...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.videolan.org&amp;#x2F;vlc&amp;#x2F;download-ios.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.videolan.org&amp;#x2F;vlc&amp;#x2F;download-ios.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&amp;#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.&lt;p&gt;Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chungy</author><text>Short answers: GPLv2, no; GPLv3, yes.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s App Store is identical to the TiVoization problem that GPLv3 was written to combat: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;licenses&amp;#x2F;rms-why-gplv3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;licenses&amp;#x2F;rms-why-gplv3&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>