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Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the license-to-license dept.

inkscapee writes "Android developers are paying little attention to Free/Open Source software licenses and have a 71% violation rate. Come on folks, FOSS licenses are easy to comply with, certainly easier than proprietary software licenses, and less punitive. But it seems even the tiny hoops that FOSS requires are too much for devs eager to cash in."

2 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. Re:IANAL by Lion+XL · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    WHAT?

  2. Re:Do no evil (directly) by macs4all · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You flag the app, and Google will remove the apps from the android market. Why are Google to blame here? iOS has violations too. http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/The+Blocks+Cometh/news.asp?c=26696

    Ok, that's one iOS example down, 177,499 to go to equal Android ( at 71% of the 250,000 current iPhone apps).

    I retract my previous post. I didn't RTFA, and didn't realize the Summary was misleading. Sorry, Androids, I apologize. I guess we're ALL in the license-violation-boat together...

    Why did the Android fan-mods feel it necessary to punish-mod my RETRACTION of my previous post? Isn't that just completely unecessarily snarky?!? Afterall, I admitted that I didn't read before posting (!!!), and APOLOGIZED.

    FFS, is THAT what slashdot has devolved into? I can understand my original post being downmodded to some extent; but NOT THE RETRACTION OF THAT POST (which I posted like one MINUTE later).

    Sheesh! Pretty fuckin' lame, mods. I hope it happens someday to you when you make a mistake.