>It's not a magic bullet, but it'll be a good thing unless they abuse it. An example of Apple's track record in this regard would be GPL apps on the App Store - they'll pull the app from the store but I have yet to hear Apple 'remote wiping' someone's previously downloaded apps.
Actually they won't "pull the app" by themselves.
At least in the one example I'm aware off, a minor contributor to a project (VLC) specifically _asked_ Apple to remove the app from the iOS app store, pissing on both the users wanting it AND the developers doing the porting for free and making the source code available for everyone, because it being on the app store didn't satisfy some GPL technicality.
Yes, but other people working on the GPL project, including more major contributors didn't have a problem with the porting and availability on iOS.
I guess all it takes is a misguided picking of licence in the beginning and a zealot that contributed somewhat (even marginally) to ruin it for all the other contributors who could care less about 100% enforcement. Maybe that explains why BSD and MIT style licences rule the roost when it comes to new projects on GitHub...
Actually they won't "pull the app" by themselves.
At least in the one example I'm aware off, a minor contributor to a project (VLC) specifically _asked_ Apple to remove the app from the iOS app store, pissing on both the users wanting it AND the developers doing the porting for free and making the source code available for everyone, because it being on the app store didn't satisfy some GPL technicality.