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Someone is using the gimp name and icon in the apple App Store

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Someone is using the gimp name and icon in the apple App Store Seldom Needy 20 Sep 15:50
  Someone is using the gimp name and icon in the apple App Store Michael Schumacher 20 Sep 16:00
Seldom Needy
2014-09-20 15:50:51 UTC (about 10 years ago)

Someone is using the gimp name and icon in the apple App Store

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Just thought you might want to know. Someone is using the icon and gimp name in >an app on the App Store.

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From: Michael Schumacher
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Yeah, this was ongoing for some time. After I started to lose faith in Apple's common sense, they finally sent this today:

"We have removed the app listed below from the App Store. Please allow some time for our systems to refresh. We trust that this resolves your concerns."

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Regards,
Michael

I take it it wasn't a *FREE* app, is that right? (Or even really anything to do with GIMP...) Otherwise even a semi-featured port of GIMP as a mobile application for iOS wouldn't be so bad.

Michael Schumacher
2014-09-20 16:00:12 UTC (about 10 years ago)

Someone is using the gimp name and icon in the apple App Store

On 20.09.2014 17:50, Seldom Needy wrote:

I take it it wasn't a *FREE* app, is that right? (Or even really anything to do with GIMP...) Otherwise even a semi-featured port of GIMP as a mobile application for iOS wouldn't be so bad.

Is was something totally different - an application built around the Aviary SDK (apparently violating their terms of use, at least this is what the Aviary developers told me), and with a "totally not abusing GIMP's name, can't you see it is a totally different full name" name slapped onto it to boost its sales.

Regarding GIMP itself on iOS: Our understanding of the iOS app store ToS is that there can be no GPL-licensed software there.

Also, GIMP on a primarily touch-based interface would have to look and feel really different.

Regards,
Michael
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