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Operates an app store

operates_app_store

Your app is itself a storefront that lists, distributes, or lets people download other companies' apps.

  • scope deployment
  • in the registry since 1.0
  • 144 laws in 91 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It distributes other developers' apps: a store, a marketplace, or an operating system that carries one.

This covers a general-purpose app marketplace and a curated storefront limited to one device category.

What does not

A company's own single app does not count, even one built with plugins, unless it distributes other developers' separate apps.

Often confused with Ships a mobile app.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of lawLawsJurisdictions
Cybersecurity law

Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

 92 68
Product and AI liability law

Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

 23 22
Age gating law

Check or estimate a user's age, or design for the children likely to use the product.

 18 15
Content moderation law

Act on notice of unlawful content, explain moderation decisions, and report on them.

 10 2
Privacy law

Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.

 8 3

Counterparties that usually come with it

  • the developers whose apps it carries
  • a payment processor

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

This activity is a property of how software is offered, so only an application or a service declares it, and only as performs.

For an application

activities: - id: operates_app_store mentioned: performs enabled: by_default note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.0, .

In the glossary: Operates an app store.

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