From rburkey@heads-up.com Thu May 15 14:16:45 2008
Subject: Licensing problem
From: Ron Burkey <rburkey@heads-up.com>
To: sw.license@apple.com

Hello!

Please excuse the complexity of this question, but I don't think that my
licensing problem falls into any of the usual categories.

First, some background information.  I have an open-source project
(http://www.sandroid.org/imcross/index.html) which aids Linux-based
software developers in extending support to Mac OS X.  In other words,
they develop Mas OS X programs directly on their Linux computers using
Linux tools, rather than from Macs using Apple tools.  This may not be
the best way of creating Mac programs, but it does result in programs
being made available on the Mac that wouldn't otherwise be available.

In order to accomplish this, it's necessary to download a package called
"Xcode" from http://developer.apple.com.  This download is free to
everyone who wishes to set up a free account there, so it is perfectly
legal and appropriate.  The difficulty is this:  The Xcode download is
about 900MB in size, but the developers using my project need only about
40MB of it (the portion known as the Software Developer's Kit or "SDK"),
so the full download is a big waste of their time and your bandwidth.
Additionally, there are technical problems associated with extracting
the SDK from Xcode which I would like to avoid by performing the
extraction myself once, rather than forcing each individual developer to
do so.

The ideal solution to this problem would be to allow these developers to
download just the SDK from my site rather than forcing them to download
the full Xcode from Apple.  But I'm concerned that this may violate the
license agreement for Xcode.  I have been providing the download up to
now, on the theory that it was beneficial to Apple as well as to
developers, but will soon discontinue it because of concern over the
licensing.

Help!  Is there any way you can assure me that providing this download
is okay, or else give me permission to provide this download rather than
forcing a seemingly unnecessary inconvenience on people?

Thanks!
Ron Burkey