I guess if you are not planning to market your iPhone app to the wider community via the App Store and just building an enterprise application that is used specifically within a business, then you may be able to getaway with developing with Monotouch. <div>
<br></div><div>I might just add that I am just speculating and have no real idea as to whether the gatekeepers at Apple will or wont stop this kind of development as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><div>
Colin</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 May 2010 14:05, Jolyon Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz">jsmith@deltics.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> I'm not sure that the new licensing is an issue for monotouch as they<br>
> support iPhoneOS 4 presently - I think the licensing is more aimed at<br>
> Adobe (I'm not sure why Apple hates flash sooooo much). But I'm sure<br>
> others on this list know more about this than I.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>The language in the license quite clearly and obviously applies equally to<br>
MonoTouch.<br>
<br>
Novell would have been working on 4.0 support long before the license terms<br>
were changed. So of course they announced support for it, they weren't<br>
about to throw all that work away. And MonotTouch can support OS 4.0<br>
without violating the license. People can even still use it to develop apps<br>
without violating the license. The license only affects whether those apps<br>
will then be permitted access to the store.<br>
<br>
It's like the landlord in your pub... he will happily sell you beer. If on<br>
the way home you then get pulled over and arrested for drunk driving, well,<br>
that's between you and the law, nothing to do with the landlord. (don't<br>
pull too closely at that analogy... landlords typically are limited by the<br>
law in some respects, e.g. to not serve intoxicated persons, but someone<br>
doesn't have to be intoxicated to be over the drink drive limit).<br>
<br>
<br>
But whole debacle is a bit pointless.<br>
<br>
The license also already gave Apple the right to deny access to/withdraw any<br>
app from the store without reason. By introducing this language I think<br>
they are covering their legal backsides against a potential law suit from<br>
someone who feels their development language/tool/framework is being<br>
specifically and unfairly targeted by Apple.<br>
<br>
This language gives them plausible cause: "The license clearly states...<br>
etc etc, so we're sorry, but all those applications written in/for your<br>
product willfully violated those terms. You knew that when you started<br>
developing/selling/marketing your product to developers".<br>
<br>
<br>
Presently they have Adobe Flash in the public gun-sights - the MonoTouch<br>
guys aren't being targeted at present (but neither have Apple said that<br>
MonoTouch escapes being covered by the license language).<br>
<br>
The bottom line is that anyone using MonoTouch to deploy code written in<br>
Delphi Prism, C# or any language other than those specifically allowed in<br>
the license for iPhone/iPad cannot now complain in the future if they have<br>
their app pulled/denied access to the store on the basis of it being a<br>
MonoTouch app.<br>
<br>
They couldn't complain before either of course, but a single developer irked<br>
at not being allowed to distribute his app isn't who the license is aimed<br>
at... it's aimed at the legal departments of the<br>
language/tool/framework/runtime vendors that those developers might choose<br>
to use.<br>
<br>
<br>
Just my 0.02<br>
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