The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 4, 2013 @01:51AM from the fighting-fragmentation-at-all-costs dept.

New submitter tian2992 writes "The new terms for the Android SDK now include phrases such as 'you may not: (a) copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK' among other non-Free-software-friendly terms, as noted by FSF Europe's Torsten Grote. Replicant, a free fork of Android, announced the release of Replicant SDK 4.0 based on the latest sources of the Android SDK without the new terms."

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Re:come on! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-04 02:52 · Score: 5, Funny

The church was ok, it didn't kill as many as ...
Oh fuck.
Re:come on! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-04 03:09 · Score: 5, Funny

OH fuck was ok, it didn't kill as many as "Hey guys! Watch this!"
Re:But Android is open by Marc+Madness · 2013-01-04 04:45 · Score: 5, Funny

That statement is only valid for large values of "evil".