It's completely legal to distribute apps through Cydia - Jailbreaking was ruled legal in the US a couple of years ago.
It does violate the warranty on the phone however, so relatively few iPhone owners do it, and if you are hoping to sell your app, be warned that Jailbroken iPhones have no copy protection, so a lot of Jailbreakers pirate their software.
If you don't mind targeting a very tiny market with a disproportionate percentage of pirated-to-legimate apps, then go for it!
In terms of the legality of copying the iPod interface, Apple have been trying and failing to sue device manufacturers for copying their designs for years, so I would't worry too much. I'd avoid using the word "iPod" anywhere in your design though as that's a trademark and will be much better protected by law.
If you choose to distribute it through Cydia, legality shouldn't be a problem. Cydia is a third party distribution platform, so often things less that illegal are allowed.
For example, install0us gives free copies of paid applications, which is obviously legal. However they haven't faced any legal action due to Cydia not exactly being too strict or regulative.
Don't take me word on this though, because I'm not a 100% sure.
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通过 Cydia 分发应用程序是完全合法的 - 几年前，越狱在美国被裁定为合法。
然而，它确实违反了手机的保修，因此相对而言很少有 iPhone 用户会这样做，如果您希望出售您的应用程序，请注意越狱的 iPhone 没有复制保护，因此很多越狱者会盗版他们的软件。
如果您不介意瞄准一个非常小的市场，并且盗版应用程序与正版应用程序的比例不成比例，那么就去吧！
就抄袭 iPod 接口的合法性而言，苹果多年来一直试图起诉抄袭其设计的设备制造商，但均以失败告终，所以我不会太担心。我会避免在设计中的任何地方使用“iPod”这个词，因为这是一个商标，并且会受到法律更好的保护。
It's completely legal to distribute apps through Cydia - Jailbreaking was ruled legal in the US a couple of years ago.
It does violate the warranty on the phone however, so relatively few iPhone owners do it, and if you are hoping to sell your app, be warned that Jailbroken iPhones have no copy protection, so a lot of Jailbreakers pirate their software.
If you don't mind targeting a very tiny market with a disproportionate percentage of pirated-to-legimate apps, then go for it!
In terms of the legality of copying the iPod interface, Apple have been trying and failing to sue device manufacturers for copying their designs for years, so I would't worry too much. I'd avoid using the word "iPod" anywhere in your design though as that's a trademark and will be much better protected by law.
如果您选择通过 Cydia 分发它，合法性应该不成问题。 Cydia 是一个第三方分发平台，因此通常允许一些不违法的事情。
例如，install0us 提供付费应用程序的免费副本，这显然是合法的。然而，由于 Cydia 并不是太严格或监管，他们还没有面临任何法律诉讼。
不过，请不要相信我的话，因为我不能百分百确定。
If you choose to distribute it through Cydia, legality shouldn't be a problem. Cydia is a third party distribution platform, so often things less that illegal are allowed.
For example, install0us gives free copies of paid applications, which is obviously legal. However they haven't faced any legal action due to Cydia not exactly being too strict or regulative.
Don't take me word on this though, because I'm not a 100% sure.