Creating an iPhone distribution

Hi all,

Prompted by a query from one of the folks who help test the OS X distro of Privoxy I've been investigating the practicality of creating a distribution for the iOS platform. This OS  is derived from OS X and as such is BSD-like, so there don't appear to be any insurmountable challenges involved.

The reason I bring it up here is that we would not be able to host the distribution at Sourceforge. Indeed, we would not be able to submit it to Apple's App Store either, since the code contravenes many of their dictates. Instead the release would target only so-called 'jailbroken' iPhones (those that have had the built-in code-signing disabled), and would be distributed through Cydia (the 'jailbreak app store').

So far as toolchain goes its basically the same as for OS X. What I have yet to confirm is whether I'd require any libraries that are available only through the $99 iPhone Developer license; if so then, as I understand it, I'd no longer be in compliance with the GPL.

That aside, does anyone have any objection if I were to go ahead with such a project and, when complete, check in the build module to the Sourceforge project? To be clear we're breaking no laws in any of this - there are those that might argue that the iPhone owners do so when they jailbreak their phones, but even that is not the case in at least the United States, the one territory where to my knowledge it has been challenged in law.

So, comments, thoughts anyone?

Ian


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