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Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to their action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, they had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who use them.
Why? "Because we could not agree to the outrageous terms in Apple’s Developer Agreement and Apple’s DRM requirements. As we have been saying for years now, the Developer Agreement is bad for developers and users alike."
The EFF has a petition to try to get Apple to change their abusive and anti-competitive policies. The EFF does a lot of good work defending everyone's rights and freedoms online. Consider signing it. Note: you can sign on any browser, including mobile browsers on an iPhone
(Score: 1) by HiThere on Friday January 09 2015, @05:16PM
Based on prior comments, it appears that if the application were made for use on the Apple, it could *ONLY* be distributed via the Apple store. If the EFF accepted those terms, I'd be rather reluctant to trust them. Now if someone were to take their software and use it as a basis for an app to be distributed via the Apple store, I'd be rather surprised if they didn't allow that, though it would be better to either do a thorough re-write or to get their approval ahead of time. (As the license holder, they are allowed to issue the software under multiple licenses, and GPL licenses with waivers of various terms have been used before, though I'm thinking of Gnat rather than the EFF.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.