Comment Re:If you're using GPL code, you have no choice (Score 4, Informative) 171
However, the summary also mentions iOS, and I was under the impression that GPL apps on the Apple AppStore are a no go?
FWIW, the situation is a bit more nuanced than that.
If the GPL licensed code is entirely your own work, you can relicense it any way you want, including to Apple for distribution on the App Store.
Where you can get into trouble with the App Store is if you take someone else GPL'd code and release it on the App Store. This could be by including third-party GPL routines, or by publishing code that was developed by multiple parties, without their permission, where copyright has not been reassigned. This was the case for the VLC player: as the article you linked alludes, Apple took that old VLC player app out of their app store due to a copyright complaint from one of the VLC developers. That was back in 2011 -- the VideoLAN Oragniaztaion has since released their own VLC for iOS, while still retaining the GPL license (albeit in part by dual-licensing it as MPL/GPL).
Yaz (IANAL)