[Dirk Hohndel] Re: OS X 10.8 installation advice in readme

[Robert C. Helling]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:

Hendrik

> We should still sign the app bundle, though...

Last night, I was browsing a bit the Apple developer web pages. It seems 
to be clear that GPL 2 is incompatible with the rules of the App Store. 
But I could not find any information about possible restrictions in the 
legal foo that you seem to have to accept when applying for the code 
signing certificates (besides the 99$/year) if you want to distribute the 
software yourself. I only found that you can either sign as an 
organisation (but that does very likely not apply for subsurface since it 
is not a registered business) or as an individual.

See 
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/ToolsLanguages/Conceptual/OSXWorkflowGuide/DistributingApplicationsOutside/DistributingApplicationsOutside.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011201-CH12-SW2

Best
Robert

PS: I presume that GPL v2 was picked on purpose to allow in principle for 
code signing etc.

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