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And he also finally released the source code. It has always been based on PCSX despite Zod's bullshit claims otherwise. He was violating the GPL with it, and I'm glad Google pulled his app from the store as he started to comply with the GPL as a result. If only saurik would do the same to Zod's iPhone apps...


Jay (saurik) doesn't actually have any control over what's available in Cydia, just as Ubuntu doesn't control what's included in a third-party repository you add. You can, however, take it up with the repository hosting the packages: but in this case, I think ZodTTD hosts them himself. You'd have to likely get the actual copyright holder to demand he take it down, or post the source code.


Saurik has control over what is in the Cydia store, unless I am mistaken about how the Cydia Store works. He also has control of the community repos. PSX4iphone and snes4iphone are featured apps in the Cydia Store. ZodTTD is a community source. Having a serial GPL violator as one of the most promoted Cydia Store coders and a community source makes the whole Jailbreak community look bad.


That's a good point, I didn't realize they were in the Cydia Store. I've asked saurik about it. (I thought that ZodTTD had actually released the source, but it appears it is often years out of date.) And you can't ever sell SNES9x, which he is doing. Sigh.




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