iPhone Dev Team on the hunt for Jody Sanders and iphoneunlockuk
After releasing their yellowsn0w software unlock on New Years Day, the iPhone Dev Team are now on the hunt for a certain individual named Jody Sanders of iphoneunlockuk.com for ripping off their work and profiting from it. I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I'm quite sure there isn't much legal recourse available to the Dev Team to get 'Jody' shut down considering they themselves are kind of in a grey area with regards to the work their doing. Sure the Dev Team isn't selling their software or otherwise profiting from all their iPhone unlocking work, however they are BREAKING Apple's agreements which has to be illegal on some level. From the Dev Team site:
Seems like “Jody Sanders” of the West Midlands, UK (who we mentioned in our release post) is at it again and is stealing our work and passing it off as his own, he has done this before and this scam was reported by the Guardian and also by us before and was also covered in a very very long thread over at hackint0sh forums.We specifically restrict the commercial use of our software, and yellowsn0w is included in these restrictions. This dodgy geezer is selling our software to you at a bargain £19.99 he says:-
“We can now fully unlock the iPhone 3G for use on any GSM network for just £19.99 DIY (£49.99 in-store at either London or Birmingham) - just in time for the release of the iPhone 3G PAYG in the UK (available from Carphone Warehouse and o2).”
Jody’s “software” contains our code and also copyrighted code from elsewhere. All you need is free and outlined here . What he is doing just isn’t cool. If you are in Birmingham or London then if you could find out any information about Jody Sanders at “iph*neunl*ckuk” we’d be very appreciative.
My guess is that this story is definitely going to start making its rounds in the UK and on other major news sites and it won't be long before iphoneunlockuk finds themselves in legal troubles for something completely unrelated to actually selling the iPhone Dev Team's unlock software...