Le 2011-11-04 à 16:28:00, i go bananas a écrit :

Wow, does this means I can't sue Apple if they ever do anything reprehensible with my free-of-charge app ? I have to trust that they will agree to sue themselves... :}

Well, the trick is easy. You charge a nominal 0,01 $. Anyway, for Free Software (GPL/LGPL), any amount whatsoever may be charged for the final packages. The only money restriction is that you can't charge much extra for the source code, although no actual limit is stated in the license texts. For the executables, you could charge 666666,66 $ for GPL/LGPL software in the App Store and the FSF wouldn't give a damn (legally... though they might think your business model is dumb).

The only problem with 0,01 $ would then be that one has to pay the cent, and possibly extra transaction fees, rather than just click OK. Well, I never have used App Store, so I don't really know how much hassle and how much more fees it means, but as a substitute, I'm thinking of the difference between an unrestricted website vs one that wants to sell me a lot of content for a single payment of 0,01 $ via PayPal.

What's the « Schedule 2 » that they are talking about ?

Although the App Store is a big thing, this does not limit your ability to charge money in general (outside of App Store). It only applies when distributing in the App Store.

But is it ok to have to get additional permission from Apple for being allowed to charge something ? This sounds like it could conflict.

Have you read this ?

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/why-free-software-and-apples-iphone-dont-mix

(says last modified oct 2011, but is listed somewhere else as first released july 2008)