Filed under: Developer. , iPhone. In a step towards transparency, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. has made the entire iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. available for the general public. This is the document that all iPhone developers must agree to when they become part of the iPhone developer program. As EFF points out, public copies of the license agreement are pretty scarce thanks to developers being locked under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the contract. EFF used the Freedom of Information Act. to get its copy from NASA, which is the version from approximately a year ago (Rev. 3-17-09) The agreement has been updated since then. The EFF characterizes the agreement as "a very one-sided contract, favoring Apple at every turn," and that's not an overstatement. Some of the clauses and conditions in the Apple developer agreement do smack of "our field, our ball, our rules" thinking from Cupertino. Highlights from the 28-page document include: A ban prohibiting
EFF releases iPhone developer license agreement
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