It's true, check the dictionary.
So is "sony".
So is "mochasoft".
So is "kookamunga".

To finish this article and add missing things, Mochasoft has properly pulled its GPL violating apps from the app store and acknowledged the fact in a proper manner. Please see the follow-ups of the discussion in the legal mailing list on www.gpl-violation.org

Additionally there seems to be another project based on rdesktop as well as many other projects based on other GPL licensed software (e.g. samba,...)

Best regards,
Peter

as of 11:50am est on Monday, the rdp is no longer avail for download from the appstore (though it is still listed in the directory of the appstore).

did mocha implicitly admit defeat?

or did apple force the withdrawl?

[Er, the INQ outed it, of course! Mod.]

Surely you mean Guh-noo Public License.

Assuming the symbols actually do belong to rdesktop software, Mochasoft is in clear violation of the GPL. 

Surprising that Mochasoft left the symbol names as they were. Maybe they're not even aware that rdesktop's symbols would remain in their object code. Maybe they never heard of a binary API?

The reasoning of Mochasoft is futile. What if people reasoned like this: "Emacs was developed on a PDP and my HTC Touch Diamond has a different input and screen than a PDP (8?) so porting the Emacs code to an HTC Touch Diamond doesn't violate the GPL? Right?" 

WRONG.

You still don't know how to spell iPhone and iPod after all these years.

Of course, releasing the source code will be a direct violation of Apple's T&C's (that famous NDA) , so they're basically screwed. Damned if they do (release the code) damned if they don't.

If you check the long list of settled cases at gpl-violations.org, you'll see that very few of them actually get as far as court. The companies almost inevitably see the light, once their lawyers realize that this is a real licence with some legal teeth behind it.