rdesktop and MochaSoft

[Armijn Hemel]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 22:09 +0100, Peter Honeder wrote:
> My question now (refering to the *maybe* from above), which I am
> unable 
> to solve, is:
> does the GPL in the case of rdesktop forbid the development of 
> applications for the iPhone because a development agreement with
> Apple 
> has to be established before someone can on his own successfully
> build 
> and run source code on the device itself?
> 
> how does this compare to the fact the Windows users have to buy
> Windows 
> before they can run GPLed applications on their PC? is this the same?
> 
> how does it compare to GPL applications built for special or
> expensive 
> hardware, is it not the same to buy special hardware or operating 
> systems before beeing able to run a certain GPLed application?

The GPL is purely a distribution license, and developing or running a
GPLed application is not covered by it.

armijn

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