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Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder

Posted by kdawson on Friday September 25, 2009 @04:21AM from the doubleplus-ungoogly dept.

Several readers sent in word that Google has served a Cease and Desist order to Cyanogen, one of the most prolific Android modders: his CyanogenMod is enjoyed by 30,000 users. The move is puzzling. Gizmodo wonders what Google's game is, and Lauren Weinstein calls the move "not of the high 'Googley' caliber" that one would expect of the company.

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Re:License missing by royler · 2009-09-25 05:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

cant allow a precedent to be set
Re:License missing by mcgrew · 2009-09-25 05:49 · Score: 1, Redundant
In some cases, failure to sufficiently defend one's rights to some IP (intellectual property) results in the inability to defend it in the future. I.e. If Google gets in the habit of knowingly allowing re-distribution of their applications with out a license, they set free any right to enforce the copyright in the future.
1. The "some IP" is trademarks. You don't lose copyright by not defending it.
2. Note that "loose" means to set free. You look like an illiterate. See my sig.
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