Devices based on iOS will lose their media player VLC?

Not long ago, a cross-platform media player VLC open source It became available for mobile devices from Apple, including the iPad. Now, however, the Web is leaking information that this version of the almost universal player soon, maybe just disappear from the App Store. So that all who wish to TUAW advises acquire VLC version for iOS, as they have the opportunity.

The reason for this decision is in violation of Apple license GPL, which is distributed under the VLC. At least, so they see the situation the player makers. All the matter in the method of distribution program. Even the free version of the software attached to a specific iTunes account, and the user can not freely transmit their friends, for example. Although they, too, can download this application from the App Store, using your own iTunes account, but, again, the application is tied to a specific owner. This contradicts the GPL license, with which the App Store are not compatible in principle. Developer iOS-version of VLC a mistake in the description of the player when you send it for approval to Apple and as a result he got in stores, but obviously not for long. Earlier, from the App Store has been removed iOS-version of the multiplatform game GNU Go for the same reason.