WordPress for iPhone source now available

When I first heard that the iPhone WordPress app was open source I thought that was cool, but what about the SDK NDA (that's nondisclosure agreement, which means you won't share any information you're told with anyone)? It would seem that the fine folks at WordPress aren't too worried about that bothersome NDA because they are now sharing the source code of the app via their SVN server. It'll be interesting to see if Apple releases the legal hounds upon WordPress or not. If they do it means that Apple is still considering the iPhone SDK NDA serious business, but if they just let WordPress distribute the code I wage we'll see plenty of other devs posting iPhone code of their own.
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When I first heard that the iPhone WordPress app was open source I thought that was cool, but what about the SDK NDA (that's nondisclosure...
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Nice!!! I was planning to make a Blogging clicne for Blogger/Wordpress//LiveJournal. I guess the Wordpress part is easy now... :D
July 25 2008 at 8:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks for the info. Tested a few minutes ago, it works. :)
http://sliu.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/from-iphone-simulator/
I don't think compiling their code with XCode is a violation of NDA.
The worst that could happen is that Apple keeps up the NDA but just tolerates violations as long as Apple sees no benefit in acting on these. This would mean a permanent threat to not piss Apple off and to lick their boots instead.
Why they will care when Telefónica de España is sharing IPHONE source code from 3 months ago?
Ok, Telefónica is a great Apple partner but is sharing many things including frameworks in openmovil forum, when other developers have to be closed to the NDA.
Telefónica is sharing as an example an MMS application, that show you that they plan to bill for the data and for the mms, they bill twice for an MMS.
But it's ok, they will not be demanded by Apple.
Why they will care when Telefónica de España is sharing IPHONE source code from 3 months ago?
Ok, Telefónica is a great Apple partner but is sharing many things including frameworks in openmovil forum, when other developers have to be closed to the NDA.
Telefónica is sharing as an example an MMS application, that show you that they plan to bill for the data and for the mms, they bill twice for an MMS.
But it's ok, they will not be demanded by Apple.
I'm not sure I understand -- how does sharing the source code for one's open source app violate the Apple NDA? They're not redistributing the SDK, they're not exposing any non-public API's (the keyword here being non-public -- I.E. you can discuss, utilize, and publish the resulting code of, anything that is visible via searching site:apple.com... presumably). In fact, since the sign-up process is automatic, I would think that anything that's available on the apple.com site -- even signed in -- is fair game.
I'm not a lawyer, though, so don't mistake this for legal advice. Just asking questions.
> They're not redistributing the SDK, they're not exposing any non-public API's
iPhone API's are not currently public.
@moo083: They are publishing their source code. The SDK is used (among other) to create the binaries from the source code and not the source code itself. No reason one should not be able to distribute source code.
July 24 2008 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhoosh! Downloaded before it gets locked down by Apple lawyers. ;)
July 24 2008 at 3:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBoxOffice was actually the first to open source their iPhone app, I believe. Its source has been available here for a few weeks: http://code.google.com/p/metasyntactic/
July 24 2008 at 2:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLooks like it's no longer there...
July 24 2008 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWait -- maybe it is. It's just not setup as a download.
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