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Mac Build Distribution Workaround (Suggestion) #677

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On macOS they removed the ability to disable gatekeeper globally, (OS-wide), but you can still remove the quarantine attribute for a file or a directory recursively, which is basically doing the same thing for the relevant file or directory contents. This can be done as user instructions to get the app you distribute working until you get approved for the developer program.

Run in the terminal app:

xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /path/to/RedotApp.app

This is a feature that is provided by Apple OS-level and is no secret. I doubt they would openly provide a way to do this if it were against their terms, but I never read their EULA on this topic, so don't use me as a credible source of knowledge.

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