14 DAY TRIAL // The Device Freedom Prize, a crowdfunded reward for the first developer(s) who release an open source iOS 7 jailbreak, has announced that iOS 7 is now jailbroken, but that the collected prize money can’t be awarded to the creators of the hack.
Following the evad3rs’ announcement on Sunday, the Device Freedom Prize changed its website header from “No” to “Yes,” as the answer to “Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?”
However, while the evad3rs’ new evasi0n7 tool can jailbreak iOS 7.0 firmware through 7.0.4, the tool isn’t open source (a topic that’s actively being discussed by hackers @i0n1c, @pod2g, and @MuscleNerd on Twitter).
“Congrats to Evad3rs on their jailbreak, but it's not open source yet. Stay tuned for an announcement,” the Device Freedom Prize organizers say.
As far as I'm aware, evasi0n7 is a GPL-licensed program.
Currently there’s a $10,272 (€7,506) prize to be snagged by whoever deploys an open source jailbreak, but chances are the evad3rs are making ten times as much money from donations and the ads on evasi0n.com.