Someone popped in the #mangler channel on IRC and said he was going to release the GPL version of Ventafone on Cydia. He wanted to clarify the terms of the GPL and make sure he was in compliance. This is great news, because Daniel is a slacker and he’s the only one with the hardware to work on it.

So here was the question that was posed in IRC:

<Rescue9> I've built an iPone version from the SVN. it includes the source code in the binary. I'm going to publish my repo to cydia. As long as the source is packaged with he binary I'm complying with the GPL.  What else should I do to remain complaint with the GPL

I’m sorry I wasn’t there to respond to you Rescue9, but since you’ve taken it upon yourself to pick up Dan’s slack, the answer is yes! Distribution via Cydia is perfectly acceptable since the binaries can be redistributed freely. You don’t have to package the source code with the binary, but if you have that option, I would certainly recommend it.

If you make any changes to the source, you will certainly need to redistribute those changes if you also redistribute the binary. If you want to permanently maintain and support the iPhone version, I have no problem with you working with us on this either. If you want to commit your changes to our SVN repo, we can work out that arrangement as well.

It’s also important to make sure that Forwardcode, LLC is given credit for their work on porting the code to the iPhone in the first place. We certainly had no intentions of doing so. While the Ventafone application is based on the Mangler code, I’m sure they put in a lot of effort to port it over (and I pity them for having to decipher my hideous code).

My only issue with claiming the iPhone app as part of our project is that the name could possibly be considered a trademark violation. If we can find people that are willing to permanently support this, we can probably come to an agreement with all parties involved to make sure there is no confusion in the name of the app.

So again, Rescue9, feel free to stop by the channel any time.

Update: There is a cydia repo available at http://corridor9.net/cyrepo

We found this via Corridor9.net. I can’t guarantee this software is free of malware or anything like that. It sounds like he is not planning to maintain this, so if someone wants to come in and take up that task, there’s still a position avaialble.