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Hi, i recently search minetest on AppStore and i foind the game, but i need tu buy him. Why ? It is normal ? Thx and sorry for my english

Which appstore?

AppStore Of iphone

there's already a thread on that here: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=8138
Not sure if it's the exact same version of the app, if not you might wanna post the link.

Go to minetest.net or https://github.com/minetest/minetest and get it for your PC instead. Minetest as seen on apple store or google play (buildcraft) are not real ports of minetest, those are illegal ports who have not released current source code that can actually be built.

Only the PC version is real, and it's always been free. At the moment, if you are asked to pay for it, you're not getting the real one!!!

Damn, I think we are getting into something similar to the flightgear scam here.

http://www.flightgear.org/flightprosim.html

Time we made a page similar to the FG one here. It's good that some people are double-checking before purchasing, but I worry about those that didn't. Time we sent a letter to Apple.

hoodedice wrote:Damn, I think we are getting into something similar to the flightgear scam here.

http://www.flightgear.org/flightprosim.html

Time we made a page similar to the FG one here. It's good that some people are double-checking before purchasing, but I worry about those that didn't. Time we sent a letter to Apple.

Not quite. Whether it's legal (via a licensing loophole) or not, the guys behind these ports are not passing along the freedom they got with Minetest to the people they're selling copies of the ports to.

I don't know how the Minetest devs feel, but personally, I wouldn't have a problem with someone making an Android port making money off of that port; it's a legitimate service, after all. It's making that port proprietary (or using proprietary software in the port) that I'm against.

onpon4 wrote:It's making that port proprietary (or using proprietary software in the port) that I'm against.

the LGPL allows it, so long as they publish any changes they make to LGPL'd code (engine). Changing the license now wouldn't make a difference, they just couldn't use future versions the same way.

Whoa, thanks for your fast answer
So I don't download rhe Iphone game
Be careful because someone win money whit that

Sorry for my poor english

onpon4 wrote:

hoodedice wrote:Damn, I think we are getting into something similar to the flightgear scam here.

http://www.flightgear.org/flightprosim.html

Time we made a page similar to the FG one here. It's good that some people are double-checking before purchasing, but I worry about those that didn't. Time we sent a letter to Apple.

Not quite. Whether it's legal (via a licensing loophole) or not, the guys behind these ports are not passing along the freedom they got with Minetest to the people they're selling copies of the ports to.

I don't know how the Minetest devs feel, but personally, I wouldn't have a problem with someone making an Android port making money off of that port; it's a legitimate service, after all. It's making that port proprietary (or using proprietary software in the port) that I'm against.

That's one problem with them. They never released the source code.