rdesktop and MochaSoft

[Peter Honeder]

Vinz Focker wrote:
> MochaSoft's rdesktop port is only the tip of the iceberg wrt GPL
> Violations in the Apple App store.

you are so right, there are many applications based on samba and other 
open source projects.

> Regarding rdesktop: There is another quite expensive ($11.99)  iPhone
> rdp client in the App store which is only available in the US App
> store and available since beginning of August and seems to sell
> extremely well (judging from the 270+ reviews in the App Store and the
> 5-star rating !)
> I just got the strings from the binary from a NY friend. Guess what
> ... rdesktop again.
> It even has the "rdesktop" strings inside:
>   .rdesktop
>   .rdesktop/cache
>   %s/.rdesktop/%s

thats really bold, did anyone already contact the company? I wrote them 
an email some minutes ago.

The problem I see is, that there seem to be some people earning pretty 
good money for the work of others. some questions arise:

- What are normal legal aspects of such a situation?
- is it possible for license holders to request compensation for damages 
in this cases?
- is it possible to get compensation of damages from Apple because they 
are earning 30%?
- is Apple also responsible for publishing the source code in this 
cases? (at least they do not have NDAs signed with themselves)

Best regards,
Peter