<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmc</author><text>The Free Software Foundation has some details on this[1]. This used to come up with the video player VLC, but they seem to have relicenced it, and it&amp;#x27;s now possible.[2]&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard one reason is that the App Store requires users to agree to additional usage restrictions, which the GPL forbids distributors (in this case Apple) from applying.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fsf.org&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fsf.org&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;more-about-the-app-store...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.videolan.org&amp;#x2F;vlc&amp;#x2F;download-ios.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.videolan.org&amp;#x2F;vlc&amp;#x2F;download-ios.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&amp;#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.&lt;p&gt;Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zbowling</author><text>If you own all the copyrights to the source of the app you are linking on Github, then you can release it on the Appstore effectively under a different license for that version. If you don&amp;#x27;t own all the code, then are possibly violating someone else&amp;#x27;s license.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&amp;#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.&lt;p&gt;Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story>