Re: Creating an iPhone distribution

Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-04-27, at 1:09 PM, Fabian Keil wrote:
> 
> > Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> Okay, a little progress.
> >> 
> >> The iOS SDK is a free (as in beer) download; it is available via the
> >> same route as Xcode (the software required to obtain gcc for OS X).
> >> This means that there is no licensing obstruction to an iPhone
> >> Privoxy distro.
> > 
> > Assuming "iOS SDK" contains proprietary "scripts used to control
> > compilation and installation", I'm not sure I follow.
> > 
> > Quoting GPLv2 §3:
> > | For an executable work, complete source code means all the source
> > code | for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface
> > definition | files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and
> > installation | of the executable. 
> > | However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need
> > | not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source
> > | or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so
> > | on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless
> > | that component itself accompanies the executable. 
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
> > 
> > Why isn't that an obstruction for distributing Privoxy binaries for
> > iOS?
> 
> Because the SDK itself doesn't contain any such scripts. I would need to
> develop the makefile, and installation is controlled by dpkg or apt
> (Cydia uses these to handle package management).

I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Fabian

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